Finally Here Free Fiction

What a day. The fiction just didn't want to come today. In order to get it we had to wrestle a troll, fly a broom, play chess, solve a logic puzzle, look into a dangerous mirror, and . . . or was that Harry Potter? I always forget whose life is whose.  But the fiction is here, finally!  [Art from The Ark Plallas in E-books]

 








Fiction
• At Project Gutenberg: The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood. 1922. Dark Fantasy.
       "Edward Fillery is the child of a brief but passionate liaison between an engineer and a strangely beautiful peasant girl. Blessed with special insight and with a 'primal quality' in his blood, Edward becomes a doctor, helping and healing those with distressing psychological illnesses. When he hears of an unusual case in Switzerland he is intrigued and moved. The young male patient, apparently born of a 'magical experiment', is a man of mystical tendencies, a worshipper of natural forces. And when he sees a portrait of the patient, there is a brief, indefinable spark of recognition.." -Amazon.

• At SciFi Ideas: "Second Victim" by Harry de Vries. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
     "Amelia sighed. The infernal rain drizzled on, and her breath flew from her mouth like smoke from the distant CentraCont Industry factories. Despite the late Mr. Debenhall, their industry powered on. A white-winged street skimmer dived over her head, the water falling from beneath it’s chromium chassis giving her in a redundant not to mention unwanted shower. Cursing under her breath, she turned at River street and powered on."

Flash Fiction
• At Daily Science Fiction: "Tomorrow Is Winter" by Callie Snow. Science Fiction.
• At Nature: "The Speed of Dark Energy" by Jeff Hecht. Science Fiction.
• At Omni Reboot : "Our Knuckles Drenched Dionysian" by Ken Baumann. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
• At 365 Tomorrows: "FilmScape" by Lindsey McLeod. Science Fiction.
At Silver Blade: Poems,

• "Electricity" by Lyn Lifshin.
• "Scheherazade" by Lyn Lifshin.
• "Those Nights She Is" by Lyn Lifshin.

Updated

• At Project Gutenberg: Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1930 and Aug. 1930.

E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]

• Death’s Servant by C.J. Ellisson. Urban Fantasy.
• There's Only One Quantum by William Bryan Smith. Cyberpunk.
• Red by EJ Koh. Dark Fantasy.

At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

• Future Past by Pamela Caves. Fantasy.
• Dark Migration (Butterfly Harvest) by Sandra R Campbell. Paranormal.
• Redemption (The End of the Iron Age) by Seth M. Baker. Science Fiction.
• The Amulets; A tale of magic and monsters by Michael Alexander Card-Mina. Fantasy.
• The Artificial Mirage by T. Warwick. Science Fiction.
• Wolf Battle and the Hidden World by Manuel Fernandez. YA Science Fiction.
• A Million Little Gods: the Clearwater Chronicles by Dave Burns. Time Travel.
• In Shrouds of Darkness by RL Barrett. Fantasy.
• Michael and the Monkey King by Alan James Brown. Paranormal.
• Volition Agent by Richard Flores IV. Science Fiction.
• A History of the World's Ending by Sebastian Galen. Science Fiction.
• A New Soul Trilogy A Werewolf's Saga by Michael Lampman. Paranormal.
• Alys (The Terra Mirum Chronicles) by Kiri Callaghan. Dark Fantasy.
• Revelations for a New Age by Mark Wheeler. Post-Apocalyptic.
• The Ark of Pallas by Leanne Hume. Science Fiction.
• 2012 Lunar Contact by JD Clarke and Gary Hocker.
• The Brothers Crunk by William Pauley III. Science Fiction. Horror.
• Dissolution of Peace by Richard Flores IV. Military Science Fiction.
• Dying To Live & Fighting To Live - Double Edition (Zombie Overload Series) by C. M. Wright.
• The Sea Inside (Cerulean Songs) by Vickie Johnstone. YA Time Travel.
• Eve (Eden) by Marie E Swift. Apocalyptic.
• My Vacation in Hell by Gene Twaronite. YA Fantasy.
• City of Gold (Lost City Chronicles) by Daniel Blackaby. Fantasy. 
• The Dark Caravan (Tides of War) by Shawn Weaver. Fantasy.
• The Nan Tu - Southern Swallow Book II (Nan Ya) by Edward C. Patterson. Fantasy.

At Smashwords:

• "The Thatcher Files: Spiders In The Park" by Sara Walker. Urban Fantasy.
• "The World According to CHAD" by Alexander Ulysses Thor. Science Fiction.
• "Shades of Black" by Quelli di ZEd. Paranormal.
• "Eyes of the Valkyrie" by John Enright. Zombies.
• Govicide: Resist by Edward Dentzel. Dystopian. 116k Words.

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Lunar Goliaths" Sci-fi. 1965.
• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Danger! Atoms!" Sci-fi. Humor. 1965.
• At Four-Color Shadows: "Death Lies Ahead" Horror. 1952.

Other Genres

• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Punk-Ass Mattresses" by Christina Dal Santo. 
• Fiction at the New Yorker: "The Colonel’s Daughter" by Robert Coover.

Savage Free Fiction

It's a good start to the weeks's free fiction with some great new text fiction, flash fiction, and audio fiction.  Today marks the conclusion of Theodore Savage (art to the left) at HiLobrow,  E-books and more to come.












Fiction
• At Daily Science Fiction: "Recognition" by Bill Glover. Superhero.
     "So here I sit, staring at a small portion of baked chicken with a side of carrots and potatoes in some sort of vinegary sauce. I have been coming to these things for ten years, and they always serve chicken, and always there is some odd flavored but nonetheless bland sauce on the vegetables."

• At HiLobrow: "Theodore Savage - Part 25 conclusion"  by Cicely Hamilton. Science Fiction.
     "When war breaks out in Europe — war which aims successfully to displace entire populations — British civilization collapses utterly and overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and dissatisfied idler, must learn to survive by his wits in the new England, where 20th-century science, technology, and culture are regarded with superstitious awe and terror." Includes links to all 25 chapters.

• At L5R: "Shadow of Disgrace" by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.
      "The Asahina family daimyo walked swiftly, his expression greatly troubled. A pair of advisers hurried in his wake, struggling to keep up. 'I am not yet convinced that this is at all an advisable thing to do,' he said, his voice tense and tight. 'We are as yet a very young family. My parents only recently retired. What we are undertaking here… this could be construed as disrespectful or even heretical.'"

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "Aurora’s Sky" by Kenton K. Yee. Animal Fable.
• At Planet Magazine: "Five Haiku" by Denny E. Marshall. 
• At Quantum Muse: "Family"  by Michele Dutcher.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Copy and Paste" by Bob Newbell.
• At Toasted Cake: "Shadow Falls, Echo Fades" by Jeff Stehman. Audio.

Audio Fiction
• At Author's Site: "Bones are White #7 - Eusocial Networking, Part 1" by Scott Sigler. Horror.
     "Welcome to a new novella. This time out, EUSOCIAL NETWORKING, a story set in the 7th SON universe of J.C. Hutchins. If you like bugs you'll love this (and if you hate them, it will scare your undergarments right off). "

• At Chilling Tales for Dark Knights: "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood. Horror.
     "A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods returned to the bosoms of their respective families with the best excuses the facts of their imaginations could suggest. Dr. Cathcart, among others, came back without a trophy; but he brought instead the memory of an experience which he declares was worth all the bull moose that had ever been shot. But then Cathcart, of Aberdeen, was interested in other things besides moose—amongst them the vagaries of the human mind."

• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 5 - Out of Time's Abyss"
      "Bradley has almost escaped from the Wieroos. Having killed Fosh-bal-soj, his captor, he has crept through the city of Oo-oh. He finds a captive Galu girl. His conversation with her is interrupted by the advent of several Wieroos"

• At SFFaudio: "The Dreams In The Witch House" by H.P. Lovecraft. Horror.
     "Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with flgures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meagre iron bed. His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he had long ago stopped the cheap mantel clock whose ticking had come to seem like a thunder of artillery. "

Other Genres
• Audio at Crime City Central: "Times Past" by Matthew C Funk.
• Audio at Internet Archive [LibriVox]: "The Aesop for Children" Fables.

Free Fiction to Help Us Forget That Ben Affleck Is Now Batman.

More great free fiction, including a pair of stories from Kristine Kathryn Rusch, an SF story by Nancy Kress, a Ken Liu story in both audio and text format, the latest episode of the Antipodean podcast, audio by Eleanor Arnason at Clarkesworld, and a ton of e-books after the fold (including David Drake and John Ringo).  I'd say to check out Regan Wolfrom's SF Signal post for more free fiction e-book links, but since many of you have come here from there, I won't.  [Art from Ken Liu's story at Drabblecast]



Fiction
At Baen [via SF Signal]

• "Migration" by Nancy Kress. Science Fiction
     "Welcome to Freedom, a Libertarian society, the only planet in the Coalition where genetic engineering is not only allowed but common. But that hasn’t changed things for the pupcats, with their drive to migrate yearly back to the ice from which they came. Shipped off planet, captured, sold, many suffer and die each year from being kept away, so Lukas has come to put a stop to it."

• "The Hanging Judge" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction
    "No matter how remote, colonies need law and order like anywhere else. Someone has to hold people accountable and keep the criminals at bay, right? You’d think a judge who travels with an execution chamber and a prison ship would be feared throughout the Colonies, but Judge Morell quickly discovers that’s not true of everyone in this interesting tale"

• "Flipping the Switch" by Jamie Todd Rubin. Science Fiction.
   "No journey to the stars could begin without a starship, and so we continue our journey with a tale about one of those without whom colonization of the stars will never happen: a colonial ship pilot, called upon to take an adventure and sacrifice life at home, until he begins realizing the cost. Did he make the right decision? Would you choose the same?"

• "The Bricks of Eta Cassiopeiae" by Brad R. Torgersen. Science Fiction
     "Someone has to go and prepare planets for colonist’s arrival. In some cases, this will consist of advance teams of volunteers or government officials, in others, perhaps laborers will be recruited. In the case of our next story, those laborers are prisoners working off their hard time. The service in the brick fields is far better than other options, however. Unless, of course, one of your fellow inmates wants even more ."

• "The Far Side of the Wilderness" by Alex Shvartsman . Science Fiction
       "Sometimes human colonists themselves can be away so long, they begin seeing the Earth as a romantic, hopeful place different from what their ancestors who founded the colony might remember. In a reverse of our other stories, a bit of a Moses-esque promised land mythology arises amongst a religious sect of isolated colonists in regards to the Earthly home they left behind, driving some of them to live for one goal: to return home. But what if home is not the place their legends recall?"

• "Legio Patria Nostra (The Legion is Our Country)" by William C. Dietz. Science Fiction
     "If the moon had a name, it was a Hudathan name, since the satellite was orbiting a world that the Hudathans laid claim to. But, like everything else in the sector of space sandwiched between the Hudathan Empire and the Confederacy of Sentient Beings, the moon was open to attack."

• At Drabblecast: "The Call of the Pancake Factory" by Ken Liu. Comedy. Horror,
      "The bar is plenty kitschy: goofy statues made from coconuts everywhere and strings of shell beads hanging from the ceiling. I smile when I see a coconut sporting a pair of mouse ears made from scallop shells." Also flash audio "Lovecraft" by Chris Munroe.


• At WMG Publishing: "Advisors at Naptime" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction. Humor.
     "She’s important because the grown-ups believe she’s an average five-year-old. Average five-year-olds have uses for bad guys who want to conquer the world. Only no one realizes that Carol isn’t average. Carol’s smart. And tired. And will do anything to get her nap"


Audio Fiction
• At Antipodean: The AntipodeanSF Radio Show #181.
     The 181st episode of this quality flash fiction podcast, featuring audio speculative fiction stories.

• At Clarkesworld: "The Lovers" by Eleanor Arnason.
     "There was a woman of the Ahara. She came of a good line within the lineage1 and grew up to be tall and broad with thick, glossy fur. Her eyes were pale gray, an unusual color in that part of the world. From childhood on, her nickname was Eyes-of-crystal. If she had a fault, it lay in her personality. She was a bit too fierce and solitary"

• At Drabblecast: "The Call of the Pancake Factory" by Ken Liu. Comedy. Horror,
      "The bar is plenty kitschy: goofy statues made from coconuts everywhere and strings of shell beads hanging from the ceiling. I smile when I see a coconut sporting a pair of mouse ears made from scallop shells." Also flash audio "Lovecraft" by Chris Munroe.
 
• At Internet Archive [LibriVox]: John Silence by Algernon Blackwood. Horror. Dark Fantasy.
       "There are, it would appear, certain wholly unremarkable persons, with none of the characteristics that invite adventure, who yet once or twice in the course of their smooth lives undergo an experience so strange that the world catches its breath—and looks the other way! And it was cases of this kind, perhaps, more than any other, that fell into the wide-spread net of John Silence, the psychic doctor, and, appealing to his deep humanity, to his patience, and to his great qualities of spiritual sympathy, led often to the revelation of problems of the strangest complexity, and of the profoundest possible human interest." Text here and here.

• At Tales to Terrify: "The Red Empress" part one of The Black Fire Concerto by Mike Allen. Dark Fantasy.
     "She settled in her chair on the stage, balanced the soundbox of her harp between her knees, braced its neck against her shoulder and caressed the strings. All twenty-two were in tune, and their song brought a sliver of comfort, for as long as she was allowed to play, she would live another day."

Other Genres
• Audio at Selected Shorts: "Odd Couples"

 E-Books after fold

It's All Right, Little Brother... There is More Free Fiction!

More free goodies today, with more to come.  A mix of new and "catch up" links.


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Fiction
• At BuzzyMag: "Shadow Transit" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Science Fiction.
     "Last night’s blizzard had choked the roads, leaving the cabinet factory short-handed for the Friday shift. So Michelle’s boss had called to give her a choice: she could come in for an emergency shift today and keep her job, or she could keep the day off she’d requested to visit her daughter at Shadow Transit"

• At Cast of Wonders: "Patterns (Part 1)" and  "Patterns (Part 2)" by Susan Oke. YA Speculative Fiction.
     "There’s no stopping Mikey in this mood. He grins at me, blue eyes bright in the moonlight, and a surge of excitement snatches at my breath. He always does this to me; it’s one of the things that I love about him. Blake and Hari stride ahead –– the Hulk and Spiderman –– full of restless energy. Mikey grabs my hand and together we run to catch up."

• At HiLoBrow: "The Clockwork Man (16)" by E.V. Odle. Science Fiction. 1923.
     "Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a “clockwork man” appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match in a small English village. Comical yet mind-blowing hijinks ensue"

• At HiLoBrow: "The Moon Men Part One and Part Two" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
     "It was early in March, 1969, that I set out from my bleak camp on the desolate shore some fifty miles southeast of Herschel Island after polar bear. I had come into the Arctic the year before to enjoy the first real vacation that I had ever had. The definite close of the Great War, in April two years before, had left an exhausted world at peace — a condition that had never before existed and with which we did not know how to cope."

• At Pseudopod: "Neighbourhood Watch" by Greg Egan. Horror.
     "Only those who break the law, says the contract. A list of statutes is provided, to be precise. Parking offences, breaking the speed limit and cheating on income tax are not included; decent people are only human, after all. Breaking and entering is there, though, and stealing, well, that dates right back to the old stone tablets."

• At Pseudopod: "Immortal L.A." by Eric Czuleger. Horror.
     "I went to the bathroom. Before I opened the door I tried to convince myself to chew a piece of gum instead. Saliva roused in my mouth and convinced me otherwise. I placed my head on the door with a gentle thunk, and thought, Am I hungry? Then, no I’m just depressed. I opened the door to the bathroom. The girl was lying in the bathtub where I left her."

• At The WiFiles: "Box 3053"  by Steve Shilstone. Speculative Fiction.
    "Harrison Banes prepares to leave for work. He stuffs his lunch into grocery bags. Shaved and combed, he takes one last look in the mirror. Uneasy, frightened, this is the night he’s been dreading. He does not want to face it. Or maybe he does. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Let’s leave it there."

• At The WiFiles: "Van Helsing Escapes" by James Lewelling.
     "I couldn’t take it anymore—her “Harker this” and “Harker that.” I had to get out of that place. I didn’t even wait for her to start into it. As soon as she had stepped into the room, I rushed the door. It took her completely off guard. The last thing I saw was the “O” of her open mouth."
 
Flash Fiction
• At Every Day Fiction: "Grounded" by Jonathon Mast. Science Fiction.
• At Quantum Muse: "The Platters" by Harris Tobias. Science Fiction.
At 365 Tomorrows:

• "The Web" by Townsend Wright. Science Fiction.
• "Robot Dance Party" by Bruce Lin. Science Fiction.
• "Topside" by Desmond Hussey. Science Fiction.
• "Street Preacher" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.
• "Long Live The Resistance!" by Eric C. Prichard. Science Fiction.
• "Penalty Claws" by Jae Miles. Science Fiction.
• "Hands and Eyes" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.
• "Titan" by Bob Skoggins. Science Fiction.
• "Matchmaker" by George R. Shirer. Science Fiction.
• "Parallel" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Cast of Wonders: "Patterns (Part 1)" and  "Patterns (Part 2)" by Susan Oke. YA Speculative Fiction.
     "There’s no stopping Mikey in this mood. He grins at me, blue eyes bright in the moonlight, and a surge of excitement snatches at my breath. He always does this to me; it’s one of the things that I love about him. Blake and Hari stride ahead –– the Hulk and Spiderman –– full of restless energy. Mikey grabs my hand and together we run to catch up."

• At Escape Pod: "Saving Alan Idle" by Katherine Mankiller. Science Fiction.
     "In the beginning, there was darkness.  And in the darkness were the words.  And the words were, _AI process starting."

• At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 04 - The People That Time Forgot"
     "Tom Billings, stranded in Caspak by his own stupidity, is making his way north. On the way, he has found and rescued a beautiful primitive girl, Ajor. Together they have traveled, sheltering in caves at night. However, tonight they have been trapped in their cave by a huge bear who begins tearing through the rock barrier they have erected."

• At Tales to Terrify: "Part One of “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood. Horror.
     "After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On the big maps this deserted area is painted in a fluffy blue, growing fainter in color as it leaves the banks, and across it may be seen in large straggling letters the word Sumpfe, meaning marshes."

• At Tales to Terrify: Episode #78. Horror.

• “The Willows,” Part 2 by Algernon Blackwood.
• “Mr. Bird Whistling in the Night” by T. Fox Dunham.
• “The Good Doctor Sullivan” by T. Fox Dunham.

Other Genres
• Audio at Forgotten Classics: The Mouse in the Mountain - now complete. by Norbert Davis. Mystery.
• Flash at Every Day Fiction:

• "Oscar’s Ten Commandments" by M. Eigh.
•  "Portraits" by Robert Searway.
• "The Same Song" by Alisa Alerin.
• "Reuben and the Roundabout" by Carroll Dale Short.
• "Trope" by Robert J. Santa.

Better Late Than Never

More great freebies- enjoy the weekend! May or may not post tomorrow.






Fiction
• At Baen: "To Spec" by Charles E. Gannon. Science Fiction.
       "Mendez, the newest guy in the squad, had been jumpy ever since the worsening solar weather updates started coming in. The most recent message—that Priestley’s replacement wouldn’t show up for at least another three hours—just made him more anxious. As Eureka command post signed off, Grim saw Mendez hold his new rifle—a flimsy piece of experimental junk called the Cochrane XM 1—a bit too tightly."

• At Buzzy Mag: "The Clean War" by Shelly Li and Ken Liu.
     "I’m not a soldier. I’m just a woman who programs computers. I don’t know what I’m doing. This was a mistake!"

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Spirit Gum" by Mike Resnick & Jordan Ellinger. 
      "Before he was The Great Bellini he was just plain old Malcolm Bell. He had a knack for magic tricks--illusions, he called them--and what had been a hobby became a profession."

• At Silver Blade: "The Guild of Swordsmen: Part 8" by Kristin Janz. Fantasy.
     "Lida suspected that her fourth match was not going to be won as easily as her first three.  She had the bad luck to have been paired against the big man she had hidden behind out on the plaza, the tallest and heaviest swordsman in the entire competition."

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "Abasteron House" by Paula Cappa. Horror.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Relativity" by Patricia Stewart. Science Fiction.
• At Every Day Fiction: "The Place I Once Called Home" by Holly Jennings. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Amazon: Essential Reading in Science Fiction by  David Scholes.

At Free eBooks Daily.

• Prison Nation by Jenni Merritt. Science Fiction.
• Fire & Ice by Patty Jansen. Fantasy.
• Alaskan Fire by Sara King. Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy.
• The Dress by Sophie Nicholls. Fantasy Romance.
• Gadgets by Kimberly Richardson. Fantasy.
• Dark Genesis by A D Koboah. Paranormal Romance.
• Forever Young by Sawyer Bennett. YA Paranormal.
• Trail of Bones by Chris Salisbury. Fantasy.
• On the Edge of Humanity by S.B. Alexander. YA Fantasy, Vampires.

At Smashwords:

• "Tooth & Claw" by Melody Hewson. 2k words.  Fantasy.
• A Spell Cast Volumes One, Two, and Three by Tessa Stokes. YA Fantasy Romance.
• "Given to Glass" by Brian Wheeler. 4k words. Fantasy.
• "Fatal Vision" by Mark Masters. 2k words. Horror.
• "The Gold Watch" by Rik Hunik. 5k words. Horror. Ghost.
• "For Joyce" by J T Pearson. 2k words. Horror. Weird.
• "My Brother's Keeper" by J T Pearson. 6k words. Science Fiction.
• "The Gravity of the Situation" by Tina Shelton. 8k words. Science Fiction.
• C-Shapes by Matthew Fish. 71 k words.Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Beware the Hairy Mango:  "The Piñata Club" by Matthew Sanborn Smith. Weird.
     No Description

• At Desert Gems Audio: "Porter of Baghdad Part I" from Sir Richard Burton's 1001 Arabian Nights.Adventure. Fantasy.
     "a handsome young  porter who is accosted by a beautiful young lady who needs his services at the market while shopping. As he is invited into her home, he haplessly stumbles into an drunken bacchanal at the house of her two sisters, on the condition he asks no questions of any goings on in the house."

• At Clarkesworld: "The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution" by A.C. Wise.
     "She’s not what you expected, Alma May Anderson, the last survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution. For one thing, her eyes are bluer. She must be a hundred if she’s a day, but her eyes are the blue of puddle-broken neon, and a postcard ocean, and the sky at noon."

• At Journey Into: "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis. Science Fiction. 
     "Young Bartholomew is a graduate student in history from a future Oxford who is assigned to travel back in time to join and study the famous Fire Watch Brigade-the volunteer corps whose brave members kept St. Paulâs Cathedral from being burned to the ground by Nazi incendiaries."

• At LibriVox: The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany. Science Fiction.
      " Set several centuries after the Great Fire -- a nuclear holocaust -- a young woman seeks her destiny with the help of a four-armed youth."

• At PodCastle: "Throwing Stones" by Mishell Baker. Fantasy.
     "In the city of Jiun-Shi the third shift was known as the goblin watch, but some of us were not very watchful. I, for one, was so absorbed in the daily details of living a lie that it took me three months to learn that one of the regulars at the Silver Fish Teahouse was a goblin. By the time our paths collided three years later, I had been promoted to third-shift manager, and my lie had been promoted to widely established fact."

• At Pseudopod: "Entrance And Exit / The Terror Of The Twins" by Algernon Blackwood. Horror.
      "“Entrance And Exit” was originally published February 13, 1909 in The Westminster Gazette and republished in TEN MINUTE STORIES in 1914. “The Terror Of The Twins” was originally published November 6, 1909 in the same newspaper and republished in 1910 in THE LOST VALLEY AND OTHER STORIES."

• At Tales to Terrify: "Episode #62" Horror.
     “Cemetery Water” by Frances Snowder and “Ghost in the Graveyard” by Tim Waggoner.

Other Genres

• Audio at The Classic Tales Podcast: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" Part 6 of 8 by G.K. Chesterton. 
• Audio at Craftlit: "Jane Eyre, Chapters 25" by Charlotte Brontë.
• Fiction at Online Pulps: "Traitor Patrol" by Peter Barrett (1937) and "Wake Up and Die!" by Robert Turner (1947). Pulp/Noir.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Kid Gloves" by Justin N Davies. Suspense.
• At Flash Fiction Friday: "Cycle 119 – The Good Guy Stories"