Celebrating the Birth . . . Genevieve Valentine

Starting a new "column" at QuasarDragon where we celebrate the birth of important genre (SF, Fantasy, and Horror) writers and other important dates.  Of course, this will also be an excuse to link to great free fiction.

Genevieve Valentine (born July 1, 1981) is an excellent young writer whose first novel won the Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel, and was nominated for the Nebula.  For more biographical information visit her website.  Be sure to check out some or all of her free stories listed below (likely an incomplete sampling) and if you like what you read/listen to, then grab her novel at Amazon.




Fiction

• "Abyssus Abyssum Invocat" at Lightspeed.
• "Advection" at Clarkesworld.
• "A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones" at Clarkesworld.
• "Bespoke" at Strange Horizons.
• "Bread and Circuses" at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• "86, 87, 88, 89" at Clarkesworld.
• "The Finest Spectacle Anywhere" at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• "Seeing" at Clarkesworld.
• "Semiramis" at Clarkesworld.
• "Souvenir" at Strange Horizons.
• "Terrain" at Tor.com.

Non-Fiction
Author Spotlights at Lightspeed

• Feb, 2013.
• Feb. 2012.
• Aug. 2011.
• July 2010.

Audio Fiction
At Beneath Ceaseless Skies:

• "Bread and Circuses"
• "The Finest Spectacle Anywhere"

 At Clarkesworld:

• "86, 87, 88, 89" read by Kate Baker.
• "A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones" read by Kate Baker.
• "Semiramis" read by Kate Baker.
• "Seeing" read by Kate Baker.

At Escape Pod:

• "Advection" read by Mur Lafferty.
• "Carthago Delenda Est" read by Kate Baker.
• "29 Union Leaders Can’t Be Wrong" read by Chris Lester.

At PodCastle:

• "Study, For Solo Piano" read by Laurice White.
• "Bespoke" read by Tina Connolly.

At StarShipSofa:

• "Is This Your Day To Join The Revolution" by Genevieve Valentine.
• "The Sandal-Bride" read by Paul  Boehmer + Interview.

Lovecraft EZine, Rachel Swirsky, and More

 There;s some good Lovecraftian horror, a pair of Rachel Swirsky stories, and more great free fiction.











Fiction
• At Apex Magazine: "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" by Rachel Swirsky.
     "If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You’d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. You’d be fragile-boned and you’d walk with as delicate and polite a gait as you could manage on massive talons. Your eyes would gaze gently from beneath your bony brow-ridge."

• At Lightspeed: "Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince" by Jake Kerr. Science Fiction.

     "Julian Samuel Prince (March 18, 1989 – August 20, 2057) was an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and political activist. His best works are widely considered to be the post-Impact novels The Grey Sunset (2027) and Rhythms of Decline (2029), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2031."

• At Lightspeed: "Lily Red" by Karen Joy Fowler. Fantasy.

       "One day Lily decided to be someone else. Someone with a past. It was an affliction of hers, wanting this. The desire was seldom triggered by any actual incident or complaint but seemed instead to be related to the act or prospect of lateral movement. She felt it every time a train passed."

• At Nightmare Magazine: "The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins" by Molly Tanzer. Horror.
        "Concerning the life and death of St. John Fitzroy, Lord Calipash—the suffering of the Lady

 • At Paizo: "Bastard, Sword - Chapter One: Ill Met by Torchlight" by Tim Pratt. Fantasy.
    "Rodrick—pragmatist, opportunist, and occasional outright thief—groaned and tried to sit up, but only managed to half-lean against the wall of a lightless cavern. His head had felt like this many times before, but usually only after a night of drinking and wenching. His memories of the prior hours were fuzzy, but they didn't involve taverns and winsome (or buxom, or both; he wasn't picky) maids."

• At Tor.com: "Terrain" by Genevieve Valentine. Western. Steampunk
     "The trains carved into land that wasn’t theirs, and swallowed the men who laid their iron roads—the tracks like threads to draw white men closer together—monsters belching smoke across a land they meant to conquer."

Now Posted: Lovecraft EZine #22.

"The Dance" by Robin Spriggs.
     "The Passage of Comings and Goings is unknown to all but him, who knows it all too well. Up and down it he has gone for aeons beyond counting. Up and down, up and down, up and down, down, down, every day downer than the down the day before."
"Maybe the Stars" by Samantha Henderson
     "Sometimes she had a flash of memory where she was somewhere quite different, where the light wasn’t a blinding glare off choppy water, where the ground was still under her feet and there wasn’t the constant hum of engines and smell of salt water"
"The Pyramid Spider" by Simon Kurt Unsworth.
     "Well, it’s as bad here as you said it might be. This place reminds me a little of what you said about Mexico – it’s very colourful and not a little desperate; you’d hate it. The poverty’s fairly extreme, and it’d offend your delicate socialist sensibilities"
"Powers of Air and Darkness" by Don Webb
     "The Balmoral flew around the world every two weeks. Paris, Chicago, Victoria, Tokyo, Peking, Moscow, Paris. A heady mix for a young man from Overland Park. Ernest had spent time in each of these cities. He had hoped for love and for adventure. Only at the very end did he receive the latter."
"Verbapeutic" by Joe Nazare
      "As if the situation weren’t frustrating enough, Serena couldn’t even text Nicole to find out if she was stuck in traffic or had just flaked out on her. The manicurist didn’t believe in cell phones, refusing to expose herself to the 'harmful aura.'"
"The Masked Messenger" by David Conyers & John Goodrich
     "Harrison Peel counted the dead as more covered corpses rolled into the Marrakech morgue. They weren’t really humans, rather the dissected remains of their flesh, bloody in leaking body bags. The sharp, coppery smell of blood filled the room, reminding Peel of an abattoir."

Audio Fiction
• At Lightspeed: "Lily Red" by Karen Joy Fowler. Fantasy.
       Described above

• At Nightmare Magazine: "The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins" by Molly Tanzer. Horror.
        Described above
 
• At StarShipSofa: “A Taste of Promise” by Rachel Swirsky.
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Clarkesworld and More Free Fiction

More great freebies including, two fantasy poetry 'zines (Goblin Fruit and Stone Telling) and the always exceptional Clarkesworld.  There are also short stories old and new, audio fiction and more.  More to come soon.




 [Art for Clarkesworld - linked below]






Fiction
• At Online Pulps: "Crash on Viar" by Joseph J. Millard. Pulp/Science Fiction. From Thrilling Wonder Stories - Feb. 1942.
   "The shadow of death on airless worlds drives Man to perform deeds of murder–and scientific laws bring them to justice!"

• At Project Gutenberg: "Jewels of Gwahlur" by Robert E. Howard. Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. From Weird Tales - March 1935.
      "Conan the Cimmerian, late of the Baracha Isles, of the Black Coast, and of many other climes where life ran wild, had come to the kingdom of Keshan following the lure of a fabled treasure that outshone the hoard of the Turanian kings."

• At Silver Blade: "The Guild of Swordsmen: Part 7" by Kristin Janz. Fantasy.
     "The swordsmen were taken to a large dining hall, where a simple but generous breakfast had been set out on long tables.  Lida sat at a corner of one table, hoping no one would try to talk with her.  No one did.  The big man she had tried to hide behind out on the Eastwatch Plaza sat near the other end of the table, and he nodded politely to her once but left her alone."

Now Posted: Clarkesworld Issue 78, March 2013.

"The Weight of a Blessing" by Aliette de Bodard.

     "On her third visit to Sarah—on the last occasion that she sees her daughter, even if it is only in V-space—Minh Ha says nothing. There are no words left, no message of comfort that she could give her."

"The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution" by A.C. Wise.

     "You didn’t expect her to be in plain sight, either. All your careful research, chasing down obscure references in mostly forgotten histories, and here she is. She’s not hiding, and if she’s not proud of her part in history, she’s not ashamed, either."

"86, 87, 88, 89" by Genevieve Valentine.

     "You are part of a vital effort to recover evidence of terrorist activity preceding the Raids, and on a larger scale, to preserve the heritage of a historic neighborhood of New York City."

Now Posted: Goblin Fruit - Winter 2013. Fantasy Poetry.

• Triumph XIII: Chaaya by Shweta Narayan
• The Journeymaker, Climbing by Rose Lemberg
• Sleeping Beauty Makes Dinner by Sally Rosen Kindred
• The Jackdaw, Married by Mathew Joiner
• Silver by Andy Humphrey
• Grief by Jennifer Jerome
• It Is Winter and Everything Is Cold, Thinks Robber Girl by Charlotte Bhaskar
• Lament for a Faithless Prince by Ada Hoffmann
• Moral by Alicia Cole
• Tent Worms by Laura Lee Washburn
• The Journeymaker to Keddar by Rose Lemberg
• As Long As There Are Husbands in Winter by Phyllis Holliday

Now Posted: Stone Telling #9.  Fantasy Poetry.

• JT Stewart - Weaver
• JT Stewart - Ancestors
• JT Stewart - Cinderella Begins Her Memoir
• JT Stewart - The Novice Takes Notes For Going South
• JT Stewart - Kiss Me / Change Me
• Dominik Parisien - Let me show you you
• Alyza Taguilaso - Aphasia
• Lisa M. Bradley - embedded
• Mat Joiner - A Black Dog
• Bogi Takács - The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook For Visiting Extraterrestrials
• Brianna Belle Sulzener - Returns
• Ishita Basu Mallik - flood
• Michele Bannister - Foam, Braided with Teeth
• Minal Hajratwala - The Unicorn at the Racetrack
• Neile Graham - With Bats in Our Belfry, Dear, Earth Water and Sky

Flash Fiction
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Darwin" by Alex Bauer. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Cast of Wonders: "Cosmetic Procedures" by Desmond Warzel. YA.
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• At Clarkesworld: "The Weight of a Blessing" by Aliette de Bodard.
      Described above

Comic Books
•Issues One and Two of Sullivan’s Sluggers, a baseball, horror comic book. In PDF and CBZ formats (Note - the CBZ issues didn't work for me but the PDFs were fine).

Other Genres

• Audio at Craftlit: Jane Eyre Chapters 22 and 23  by Charlotte Brontë.
• Fiction at Online Pulps: "Homicide Shaft" by Robert Leslie Bellem (Noir 1949) and "The Tornado" by Raymond S. Spears (Pulp 1918).
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Robot Legs" by W.J. McCabe.

Thursday Freebies

More great freebies today, including a pair of free genre fiction stories from Tor and Nature. There's flash fiction, including one by Hugo award winning writer, Ken Liu, and some good sounding audio fiction. 


[Art from "Wild Thing" linked below]






Fiction
At Nature: "The candidate pool" by Brian Hurrel and Jeff Samson. Science Fiction.
      "Massive environmental chaos caused by deregulation and corruption,” said Stormont. “We're talking entire ecosystems destroyed. Total societal breakdown. Bandits, fortified towns, cannibals. Think The Day After Tomorrow meets The Road Warrior."

At Tor.com: "Wild Things" by Alyx Dellamonica.
      "My swamp man wasn’t what you’d call a sexy beast, though I found his skin strangely beautiful. It was birch bark: tender, onion-thin, chalk white in color, with hints of almond and apricot. He was easily bruised, attracted lichens, and when he got too dry, he peeled."
 
Flash Fiction
At Daily Science Fiction: "The Tides" by Ken Liu.
At Every Day Fiction: "Caged" by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks. Science Fiction.
At 365 Tomorrows: "Keep Watching the Skies" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.

E-Books
 At Free eBooks Daily:

• Beguiled by RaShelle Workman. YA Paranormal Fantasy.
• Regeneration by Kevin Gordon. Science Fiction.
• A Knight to Desire by Gerri Russell. Arthurian Romance.
• With Heart to Hear by Frankie Robertson. Fantasy Romance.
• The Selkie Enchantress by Sophie Moss. Fantasy Romance.

Via Lovecraft eZine:

• When Cthulhu Met Atlach-Nacha by Alan Ryker. Weird.
• Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany. Weird. Horror.

At Smashwords: "Shadow Flight" by John Harrison. Fantasy. 19k.

Audio Fiction
At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 01 - The Return of Tarzan Adventure.
     "We pick up the action several months after the conclusion of Tarzan of the Apes."

At Free Reads:  "Lovestory" Part Three by James Patrick Kelly. Science Fiction.
     "which was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in June, 1998."

At LibriVox: The Time Traders (version 2) by Andre Norton. 
     "If it is possible to conquer space, then perhaps it is also possible to conquer time. At least that was the theory American scientists were exploring in an effort to explain the new sources of knowledge the Russians possessed."

At PodCastle: "Study, For Solo Piano" by Genevieve Valentine. Fantasy.
     "Then, her lieutenants are Elena from the trapeze, and Panadrome the music man, who presses his accordion bellows tight to his side to keep it from sharp edges, and Alec, their final act, who folds his gleaming wings tight against his back so he can fit through the hole in the wall."

At SFFAudio: Two H.P. Lovecraft poems from Weird Tales and "Recapture" by H.P. Lovecraft. Weird Poems.

Other Genres

• Audio at LibriVox: Burning Daylight by Jack London.
• Audio at LibriVox: The Gold Sickle by Eugène Sue.  Historical Fiction. Druids.

More Free Fiction

Some more good free fiction.













@Lightspeed: "The Nearest Thing" by Genevieve Valentine. Science Fiction.

"We know you love your family. We know you worry about leaving them behind. And we know you’ve asked for more information about us, which means you’re thinking about giving your family the greatest gift of all: You."

@Baen: "The Brute Force Approach" by Michael Z. Williamson. Science Fiction.

"Stadter nodded, checked the grid and synched the blip to the ship's computer. Three seconds later the computer hit the grapple release. Auburn slipped off the station's waist, using the centrifugal force as delta V. He brought engines up smoothly, and pushed them from free fall to 2 G standard. The couch gripped him through the acceleration."

@Author's Site: "The Case of The Vanishing Boy" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Detective story set at a science fiction convention.


Now Posted: Absent Willow Review Aug. 2011

• "Alleyeyes" by Kent Rosenberger. Science Fiction.
• "Love Notes for the Sun" by Jarod K. Anderson. Science Fiction.
• "The Boathouse" by Stephen McQuiggan. Horror.
• "Tin Man" by Dale Howard. Horror.
• "A Birthday To Remember" by Pete McArdle. Fantasy.
• "Heaven Box" by Erich William Bergmeier. Science Fiction.
• "Shut-In" by William C Rasmussen. Horror.
• "Dead Man’s Dump" by David W. Landrum. Horror.
• "Tourist Attraction" by Lawrence Buentello. Fantasy.
• "Three Poems" by Michael C. Keith. Horror.
• "The Infinity Processor" by Evan Rourke. Science Fiction.

Now Posted: Edge of Propinquity Aug. 2011.

• "Acolyte" by Kaolin Fire.
• "Destinies" by Peter M. Ball.
• "Fasces" by Ivan Ewert.
• "The Wind Like a Knife's Edge" by Alina Pete.
• "Temple of Ill-Repute" by Elizabeth Aronoff.

Serial Fiction
@More Red Ink:"Texture of Other Ways" by Mark W. Tiedemann (Part 1 of 3), first published in the September 1999 issue of Science Fiction Age [via SF Signal].

@Author's Site:

• "The Journals of Doctor Mormeck (mountain)–Entry #17" by Jeff VanderMeer.
• "The Journals of Doctor Mormeck’s Avatar–Entry #11" by Jeff VanderMeer.
• "The Journals of Doctor Mormeck (mountain)–Entry #18" by Jeff VanderMeer.

Audio Fiction
@Lightspeed: "The Nearest Thing" by Genevieve Valentine., read by Arte Johnson. Science Fiction.

Monday Audio and Text Fiction

A few gems for the morning with about a 70% chance of more later. There's a new story, including an audio version, at Fantasy Magazine,and a few more cool fantasy and SF stories from other great sites. New audio at 19 Nocturne Boulevard and from the always cool and strange Matthew Sanborn Smith. And serial audio at Beam Me Up, from Scott Sigler, and a new serial dramatization "Beneath The Ruined Tower Of Zenopus!"

Today's illustration is from the D&D inspired audio drama "Beneath The Ruined Tower Of Zenopus!"







@Fantasy Magazine: "Crossroads" by Laura Anne Gilman.

"John came to the crossroads at just shy of noon, where a man dressed all in black stared up at another man hanging from a gallows-tree. No, not hanging; he was being hung."

@Daily Science Fiction: "The Last Librarian: Or a Short Account of the End of the World" by Edoardo Alberrt.
@Kasma Science Fiction: "Where Even Fools Fear to Tread" by Ashanti Luke.
@Ray Gun Revival: "The Cowboys of Carnostus" by Timothy Miller.
@Strange Horizons: "Souvenir" by Genevieve Valentine.

Serial Fiction
@AEG: "Aftermath, Part 1" by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.
@White Wolf: "Silent Knife (Part 17)" by David Nurenberg. Horror. Urban Fantasy.








@Beware the Hairy Mango: "Episode 84 – Easy as Cake" by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
@Fantasy Magazine: "Crossroads" by Laura Anne Gilman, read by Stefan Rudnicki.
@19 Nocturne Boulevard: "The Thing on the Doorstep" adapted by Julie Hoverson from the story by H.P. Lovecraft. Horror.

Serial Audio
@Author's Site: "The Starter (Episode #27)" by Scott Sigler. Science Fiction.
@Beam Me Up: "Dark InSpectre #15: " by Jason Kahn and "The Stars Fell pt1" by Keith Latch
@The Warlock's Homebrew: "Beneath The Ruined Tower Of Zenopus! (Chapter 1: Into the Dark)" by Paul Fin, performed by a full cast.Fantasy.

Tuesday Freebies Pt. 1

More cool freebies, from a variety of sources. More later.




Illustration from Day of the Dead below.









@Subterranean Press:"Demons, Your Body, and You" by Genevieve Valentine. YA / Urban Fantasy.

"Between sophomore and junior years was the summer my parents sent me to the urban day camp, and Katie got impregnated by the demon."

@Author's Site: "Going Native" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction.
@Daily Science Fiction: "Suspicious" by James Patrick Kelly.
@Electric Velocipede: "The Boy Who Could Bend and Fall" by Ken Scholes. Spec. Fiction.
@Free eBooks Daily: "Death Ray Butterfly" by Tom Lichtenberg. Spec. Fiction. [DRM]
@Free eBooks Daily: "The Day of the Dead" by Karen Chance. Urban Fantasy. [DRM]
@Free eBooks Daily: "The Smoke Dragon" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings. Fantasy. [DRM]
@Free eBooks Daily: "The Sacrifice" by Janice Daugharty. Horror. [DRM]
@L5R: "The Hinge of Destiny" by Nancy Sauer. Fantasy.
@Lightspeed: "Sweet Sixteen" by Kat Howard. Science Fiction.
@Mindflights: "I Am Your Son That Was" by Eric Ortlund. Fantasy.
@Smashwords: "Frank" by Tony Healey. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal*]
@Strange Horizons: "Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot" by Claire Humphrey. Speculative Fiction.

Now Posted Goblin Fruit (Summer 2011).

Featuring fantasy poetry (many with audio readings) by Catherynne M. Valente, Liz Bourke, Shawna Lenore Kastin, Tala Eirsdottir Brock Marie Moore, Kathryn Hinds, Amanda C. Davis, Nin Harris, Seanan McGuire, Elizabeth R. McClellan, Kayleigh Ayn Bohémier, Kathryn Hinds, Rosalind Casey, Nina Pelaez, Becca de la Rosa

Serial Fiction
@L5R: "Goddesses (Part 2)" By Shawn Carman. Fantasy.

Non-Fiction
@Pixel of Ink: Comic Books 101 by Scott Tipton and Chris Ryall (Kindle only).
@Pixel of Ink: Creating Comics from Start to Finish by Buddy Scalera (Kindle only).

Audio Fiction
@Lightspeed: "Sweet Sixteen" by Kat Howard, read by Taylor Meskimen. Science Fiction.
@PodCastle: "Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory" by Paul M. Berger, read by Graeme Dunlop and Ann Leckie. Fantasy.

Serial Audio
@Pendant Productions: "Episode 2x04 of The Line" Fantasy.

Seven Kick-Butt Free E-Zines and Much More

An overwhelming amount of free goodness today! Three great free fiction magazines (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, and Redstone Science Fiction) have new issues out today. And a couple more good free stories are up. There is an interesting variety of audio fiction today to check out. Four (Really!) free gaming magazines are available for PDF downloads. And if all that isn't enough, there are more gaming itemes, and several free comic book stories - heavy on adventure today.








Clarkesworld Magazine has its June issue out with

"Semiramis" by Genevieve Valentine.

"Ever since Svalbard had been put under review, it had been hell and a half trying to figure out how to recruit a domestic cover who could carry seeds off the island."

"Trickster" by Mari Ness.

"The god came to me on a night when both moons were dark, allowing us to see the stars. Not that I could, hidden as I was behind mats and screens and hangings, but I knew the stars were there, one of the rare nights we could be sure of this."

The audio version of "Semiramis" by Genevieve Valentine, read by Kate Baker is HERE.


@Redstone Science Fiction: The June 2011 issue is out with fiction:

"An Infallible System of Roulette"by Christopher Miller.

"The first time I died might’ve been back in ‘65 on a community farm up in Forest River, North Dakota. Although there was an earlier summer where I’d tiptoed out to a Lee Street beach sandbar and gotten stranded by Lake Michigan’s tide, or maybe wind swells"

"Love and Anarchy and Science Fiction" by Angela Ambroz.

"Of course, he has changed since prison. His hair is whiter. His jowls droop; he’s filled out. But I don’t see a big difference. And I’ve known him for years; I’ve known him longer than anyone else in the empire has."

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "From the Spices of Sanandira, Pt. I" by Bradley P. Beaulieu.

"Uhammad ben Yazr woke with someone nudging his shoulder. By the pale light of the moon through the open window of his dhoba he could see his friend of twenty years, Jalaad, holding a finger to his lips."

"The Nine-Tailed Cat" by Michael J. DeLuca.

"I arrive at the door of my house in the dark with lamp and spade, jungle mud caked past my ankles, thickets of scratches streaking my limbs. I set the lamp on the step, sling the sack of stinking goat’s meat off my shoulder, and reach for the knob. "

@Dark Valentine: "Fine Fire" by Richard Godwin.

"She was always there. In the corner of the bar with her cigarette burning in her hand, her long and slender holder tapering at the enhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifd and oozing smoke like dry ice."

Serial
@Pathfinder Tales: "The Ironroot Deception" by Robin D. Laws. Chapter One: The Snare.

"Gad feels the roughness of the burr-oak's bark as its branch constricts tighter around his ankles. Though he is upside down, blood rushing to his head, his face retains its symmetry. A roguish skiff of stubble softens his jutting jaw. Gray-peppered hair clings closely to his scalp. Blue eyes sear out at his elven captor."

@LightningBolt Theater of the Mind: "The Swamp" [via Radio Drama Revival]. Horror.

"When Rachel sleeps, the swamp awaits her. Every night, the dreams of something pursuing her through the twilight-lit marshland, come. Her real life isn’t much better."

@PodCastle: PodCastle Special: The Alphabet Quartet (A Primer) by Tim Pratt, Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, and Greg van Eekhout. Fantasy.

“D is for De Gustibus,” read by Norm Sherman (of The Drabblecast).

“F is for Flotsam,” read by Dave Thompson.

“L is for Luminous,” read by Rish Outfield (of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine)

“N is for Nevermore Nevermore Land,”

@Pseudopod: Pseudopod Special: The Alphabet Quartet (A Primer) by Tim Pratt, Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, and Greg van Eekhout. Horror.

“Q is for Quit,” read by Graeme Dunlop.

“F is for Flotsam,” read by Dave Thompson of PodCastle.

@Lovecraft eZine: "Fungi from Yuggoth" by H. P. Lovecraft. Horror.

"Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Most of the sonnets were written between 27 December 1929 – 4 January 1930; thereafter individual sonnets appeared in Weird Tales and other genre magazines. "

@ScottSigler.com: Tuesday Terror: "Lefty and the Boxcar" Part 2 of 2 by Steven Gomez, read by Arioch Morningstar. Horror.

@Kung Fu Action Theater: KFATales 05- "Gen San-Mi Yorimasa- The Knight" by Yei Theodora Ozaki, read by Richard Bartok III. Adventure.

A "look instead at one of the legendary Samurai from Japanese history- Gen San-Mi Yorimasa. This story is from the collection Warriors of Old Japan and Other Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki, which was published in the early 20th century"

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Cold Iron and Green Vines" by Wendy N. Wagner. Fantasy.

"Most people didn't bother replacing teeth; they all went wicker-and-cogwork as young as they could."

@Beware the Hairy Mango: Episode 79 – "A Question of Benefits" by Matthew Sanborn Smith. Weird.








@DriveThruRPG: Rite Publishing's Pathways #4

"Rite Publishing continues its free e-zine with templates, new monsters, domains, feats, encounters, and reviews all bundled together with a Greg A. Vaughn (Pathfinder Chronicles: Into the Darklands and Slumbering Tsar) interview about Tome of Horrors Complete!"




@DriveThruRPG: Infinite Horizons #2.

"The second issue of Avalon Game's great Sci-Fi e-zine, Infinite Horizons will bring to you all the great Sci-Fi stuff you have been wanting, and more."





@DriveThruRPG: Game Geek #18.

This free 55 page PDF contains free gaming articles, reviews, serial fiction, comics and more.






@Mongoose Publishing: Signs & Portents #93 featuring
Traveller - "the fully updated classic adventure Annic Nova. Your players will discover a strange ship floating in deep space."
Lone Wolf - "We are talking Giak this month - who need Klingon?"
RuneQuest II - "A brand new cult to insert into your campaign"
RuneQuest II Vikings - "A complete adventure for north men with horned helmets."

And other articles in the free PDF download.


Other Cool Gaming Items

• @A Field Guide to Doomsday: [monsters] "RANAbot" and "Apocra" Mutant Future.
• @Sea of Stars: [magic item] "Dress of Assignations"
• @A Character For Every Game: [maps] "Random Dungeon Entrances I (d8)"
• @Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [monster] "Hornet, Limbo"
• @Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [spell] "Frogtrap"

@The Horrors of It All: "Miser in the Coffin" Horror (1953).
@The Comic Book Catacombs: Kara the Jungle Princess in "Shrine of the Moon God" Adventure. 1945.
@The Comics Reading Library: Adventures Into the Unknown #120. SF/Adventure.
@Digital Comics Museum: Sheena and the Hawk in Jumbo Comics #27. Adventure and Tiger Girl in Fight Comics #34, #44, and #45. Adventure.
@Ditko Comics: "You Can Make Me Fly" (1957). Science Fiction.
@Four-Color Shadows: an untitled "Stuart Taylor in Weird Tales of the Supernatural" story. SF.
@Atomic Kommie Comics: Space Western "Hank Roper and the Riddle of Skull Valley"
@Hero (& Heroine) Histories: Cave Girl "Ape God of Kor" Adventure.