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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Terrific Tuesday Treats

Many good freebies today, including two 'zines, numerous short stories, flash fiction, comics, e-books, etc.  Be sure to check out SF Signal's daily freebies post, especially since, reversing the natural order of the universe, I swiped a link from Regan Wolfrom today.

[Art from "Deathchaser" by D.L. Watson, linked below]




Fiction
• At Author's Site: "Tribute" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Pirates.
     " But when the crew begin writing about a ghostly vision—a vision impossible to believe but inadvisable to ignore—he must address the danger facing the ship and her crew. And he must make a choice that will affect every last man on board."

• At The Colored Lens: "The Desert Cold Oasis and Spa" by Emily B. Cataneo.  Slipstream.
     "The woman in the diner’s backroom sat in a chair–but no, she wasn’t just sitting. She had become the chair, or the chair was eating her, consuming her like a wicker tumor. Half her teeth were gone and white willow strands had forced through the empty spots in her gums."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "It's Good to See You" by Douglas Rudoff. Science Fiction.
     "Most people were unsettled by the journey past the dead to the ship's forward viewing dome. Brad didn't mind as it allowed him solitude. He floated through the zero gravity of the dimly lit, quarter-mile-long corridor of the necropolis, pulling himself along the rungs between the rows of thousands of white sarcophagi encircling him on all sides, the blank faces of their occupants just barely visible through small windows. In four days, he'd be joining them."

• At Lightspeed: "The Traditional"  by Maria Dahvana Headley. Science Fiction.
      "By your first anniversary, the world’s stopped making paper, and so you can’t give your boyfriend the traditional gift. You never would have anyway, regardless of circumstances. You’re not that kind of girl. You pride yourself"

• At Lightspeed: "The Man Who Carved Skulls"  by Richard Parks. Fantasy.
     “I married your mother for her skull. It’s no secret.” Jarak put aside his rasps and gouges for the moment, resting his eyes and mind from the precise, exacting work his trade demanded. He didn’t mind his son’s persistent questions at such times. Akan was at an age when he should be curious and, if curiosity was a duty, Akan was a dedicated boy. It wasn’t as though Purlo the Baker, whose skull rested patiently on Jarak’s workbench, was in a hurry."

• At Strange Horizons: "Hear the Enemy, My Daughter" by Kenneth Schneyer.
       "Now Kesi is four and does not mention him at all. She remembers him; when I point to his picture, she tells me who Jabari is. But she does not begin conversation about him. She does not ask when he will return. She does not ask what it means to die."

• At Tor.com:  "We Have Always Lived On Mars" by Cecil Castellucci. Science Fiction.
       "Nina, one of the few descendants of human colony on Mars that was abandoned by Earth, is surprised to discover that she can breathe the toxic atmosphere of the Martian surface.  The crew, thinking that their attempts at terraforming and breeding for Martian adaptability have finally payed off, rejoice at the prospect of a brighter future."

• At World SF Blog: "A Puddle of Blood" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Vampires.
     "Domingo waits to see if the next news items will expand on the drug-war story. He is fond of yellow journalism. He also likes stories about vampires; they seem exotic. There are no vampires in Mexico City: their kind has been a no-no for the past thirty years, around the time the Federal District became a city-state."

Now Posted: Galaxy's Edge #2. Science Fiction. [Via SF Signal]
Now Posted: Sorcerous Signals May - Jul '13. Fantasy.
Flash Fiction
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
Audio Fiction
• At Lightspeed: "The Traditional"  by Maria Dahvana Headley. Science Fiction.
     Described Above.
• At Strange Horizons: "Hear the Enemy, My Daughter" by Kenneth Schneyer.
     Described Above. 

Comics
Other Genres
  • Audio at Project Pulp: "The Spirit of France" by S. B. H. Hurst. Pulp f=Fiction.
  • Flash at Every Day Fiction: "Margins" by D. Z. Watt.
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Monday Free Fiction Links

More great free fiction from some of the best sites out there.  And don't forget SF Signal for more free fiction links.





Fiction
At Black Gate: “The Moonstones of Sor Lunarum” by Joe Bonadonna. Fantasy.
     "Long before the legendary cities of Cush and Erusabad were destroyed by war, the graveyard was old. No one knew how old the graveyard truly was, for the carvings on its headstones and markers had been long worn away by the hands of time, wind, and weather. The cemetery crouched with its dead in a hidden vale in the dark heart of Khanya-Toth, land of shadows, black magic, and creatures of the night."

At The WiFiles: "Captive of the Count (A Philip Marvel Adventure)" by Frank Hagelberg.
      "All was pitch black. This must be a dream, thought Philip. A moment back he had been at the playground in the neighbor’s garden, pitting Spiderman against the Incredible Hulk, and glimpsing into the rich light of a warm late fall morning. Am I blinking? As far as blinks go, this is a long one. And why is it so cold all of a sudden?"

At Silver Blade: "Altruism" by Molly N. Moss.
     JAAD-6 assaulters showed off strike maneuvers, making thunderclaps as they broke the speed of sound five times over. A small girl cringed from the explosions and clung to her father’s knee. “Take me home, Daddy,” she screamed to make herself heard. “Please!”

At Wily Writers: "Cineraku" by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt.
     "It was not a holonovel, where audience and performer were one, the viewer the solipsistic star of everything. Nor was it teleradio, with thoughts and emotions beamed directly to the brain. It was not a net opera, with everyone jacked into the same experience. His art was cineraku, and Takemoto was a master."

Flash Fiction

Audio Fiction
• At Beam Me Up: "Trathh - The Story Continues" by David Scholes. Science Fiction.
     "another low key tale of the warrior Trath coming back to visit one of the remote aboriginal tribes."   

• At Cthulhu: "House on the Borderland, parts 18 and 19" by William Hope Hodgson. Horror.
      "some trouble with time, where things get even weirder." 

• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 26 (Final) - The Return of Tarzan"
     "Tarzan has rescued Jane and returned her to the camp where Clayton lies dying."

• At Journey Into: "The Boy Who Could Bend and Fall" by Ken Scholes.
     "Focus Jones, a.k.a Slinky Boy, has an interesting way of escaping his reality."

• At Toasted Cake: "Nahuales" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Horror.
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• At Wily Writers: "Cineraku" by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt.
        Described above

Other Genres
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

More Cool Free E-Zines

Another great batch of free fiction as a few more good free fiction e-zines are up online.  All are worth checking out because each is unique, quite good, and best of all free! And don't miss all the flash fiction from several varied sites.  And there's some good audio fiction for when your eyes fall out from over-reading.











Fiction

Now Posted: Expanded Horizons #38 Speculative Fiction.
"Scales as Pale as Moonlight" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
      "A child wailed in the dark, in the scrubland. The serpent screams like that as it waits in the thickets. Laura opened the window and stood still, listening. The cry did not repeat itself."
        "I look up and see the dog playing with a dropped branch in the drive. He is shaking it back and forth, trying to break the imaginary neck beneath the bark. It takes me a full two minutes to realise that it’s not a branch at all, but a broken prong from the antlers of the moose they towed away this morning."
At Fear and Trembling: "A Fixer-Upper" by Mark Silcox. Horror. Ghost.

      "It was the sort of road that might have been frightening to travel in the dark. It turned and wound to and fro through the rugged countryside like a weird carnival ride. The hedges on either side were unruly and hopping with life, and there certainly wasn’t enough space for two cars to pass alongside one another without incident."

Now Posted: Fusion Fragment #19
"The Crows Dance While The Baby Cries" by Daniel Davis. Science Fiction.
       "Some sort of vision Portholes occasionally experienced, potent enough to be depicted on the medallion, mysterious enough to garner only a few mentions in official research. No explanation was known, though it had been hypothesized that the drug affected the human mind in some primal way, going back thousands of years, to when fears and joys and all of life's experiences were basic. A shared hallucination.

"Every Breath You Take" by Don Norum. Science Fiction.
       "The lady on the television said that she could sense them. $3.99 a minute, she'd tell you where they were. Bathroom, bedroom, kitchen - how many, what they were doing, what they looked like."

"Evaporated Government" by John Skylar. Science Fiction.
        "Apparently I am the President of the United States of America. It's not something I've processed all the way yet."
Now Posted Interstellar Fiction Dec. 2012:  Science Fiction.
"Cold Pride" by James K. Isaac. Science Fiction.
      "Quinn was impulsive; according to the assessment of his masters anyway. But he dismissed their words as “the counter intuitive judgments of those who had been too long out the field.” His masters were old, unlike Brother Quinn who possessed both youth and talent, who was gifted with speed of foot and mind, a quick study."
"One Good Turn" by Edward H. Park. Science Fiction.
      "Michael didn’t sense anything wrong until he was almost back to the ship. He had no communications with the rest of the crew when his orbit took him to the other side of the planet, of course, but even when the ship showed up again on the scanner he didn’t bother to call in. He was still going over the data gathered on the planet’s tiny moon."
"Maximum Law" by Martin Clark. Science Fiction.
      "Rolling in the deep, wired to the max. Adele playing on Retro FM, Jim driving, me hugging the 12-gauge to my chest, head bobbing in time to the beat. We were both fired up on Godz — methamphetamine with a ketamine bumper — and feeling pretty damn invincible."
Now Posted: Quantum Muse: December 2012 Edition.
"Beyond the Rift" by Jeromy Henry. Fantasy.
      "Everyone who tries the ritual ends up insane or altered into something... unpleasant. But Jed has nothing to lose. Can he be the first one to master magic? Will he unlock the secrets of the world, or destroy it?" 
"Grulym" by Astrid Nielsen. Fantasy.
     "Dark forces are at work in the city of Grulym, and Raduz, an exiled doctor, is unkowingly tied to the changes aubout to happen."
"Paradoxical" by Impotent Verse. Science Fiction.
     "What is stranger, the notes Jack finds tucked inside his library books, or that he takes their messages very seriously?"
"Eye of the Trapped Animal" by Gordon Rowlinson. "Alternative"
      "What would you do if you had an out of body experience and witnessed a crime. You couldn't prove it."
Now Posted: Perihelion - Dec. 2012:  Science Fiction.
"Who By Fire" by Jeff Samson. Science Fiction.
      "THE LIFT DESCENDS, GRINDING and shuddering down the station’s spine. Through the smoky glass doors I watch the hangar names slide across my line of sight in thick, jet-black characters crosshatched with colors that change from level to level. They shift from cool purples and blues to warm greens and ambers to hot rusts and reds, their palette specified long ago by some methodical, color-minded engineer."
Shit Eatin’ Dog by Bob Sojka. Science Fiction.
      "The spacecraft’s gazetteer and botanary had sparse entries for this location, and only a few features were identified with earth names. What mattered more was that the air was promisingly redolent with a blend of organic volatiles emanating from the profusion of living and decaying carbon-based life forms all about."
Joshua Who Could See by Elizabeth Streeter. Science Fiction.
     "Joshua keeps his head down, black sunglasses shielding his eyes. He focuses on nothing. The doctors taught him this technique. It will calm you, they said. Keep you from getting overwhelmed. Keep you from hurting yourself."
Calliope Muse by Rebecca L. Brown. Science Fiction.
     "CALLIOPE MUSE IS a Breeder. You can tell by the way she wears her hips; full— not shaved down widthways like all the other girlies. If not by that, then you can tell by the hang of her tits—almost down to her waist if she didn’t have that clasp contraption on and buckled up tight. Calliope Muse is a Breeder and that makes her desirable."
Waver of the Image by Joe Occhipinti. Science Fiction.
      "His eyes ran along the camber of the world, along the seam to where the arch of green grass gave way to the bend of sky. Every hundred paces or so an elbow of dull gray pipe the size of his waist jutted out of the land and plunged into the silver hue; the elbows were like stitches that cleaved the sky to the earth."
Salvation of Sam by Ellen Denton. Science Fiction.
       "IT WAS NOW TWO YEARS since Sam had gotten out of prison and been posted on Rika 4. He shook his head with disgust as he looked at the expanse of flat, brown sand stretching as far as he could see in all directions. He still had a hard time accepting that he was on some dump of a planet that didn’t even have virtual reality-escape machines. Even prisons had them these days."
Three Into Two Won’t Go by Ann Gimpel. Science Fiction.
       "CORINA TROTTED SMARTLY down the well-worn dirt track. She’d gotten a shred off course, but astute orienteering had fixed that. The angle of the sun was a bit of a puzzle. She didn’t see how it could have shifted to the western sky so quickly. And she was worried about Josh. What had happened to him? One minute they’d been together, the next she was walking by herself, feeling out of it."
3rd Dragoon Regiment and the Liberation of Contagor’e-Mare by Don C. Ciers. Science Fiction.
       "Our timing is perfect, Commodore. Balesti and Aipian are at aphelion. ESR shows 17 civilian transports in orbit of Aipian and her moons and stations, half of them are running cold. Even if they power up in time they won’t reach the 9-3 lanes before we do,” the S-3 asserted."
Collector’s Item by Doug Donnan. Science Fiction.
      “A hundred bucks? Why that’s highway robbery,” Mandelbrite replied as he waved his pudgy hands aloft like some crazed televangelist. “I don’t think you realize the potential of this little robot.”
 Flash Fiction
  • At Expanded Horizons: "A New Word" by Rachel Manija Brown. Fantasy Poem.
  • At Fear and Trembling:  "Song of the Frogs" by M. T. Nagel. Horror.
  • At Fear and Trembling: "Unprepared" by Celesta Thiessen. Zombies.
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Two’s a Crowd" by Tom Coupland. Science Fiction.
  • At Antipodean: Speculative Fiction:
"Faerie Blues" by Chris Andrews.
"Corporate Body" by D.W. Walker.
"The Past Is A Good Place" by Antoinette Rydyr.
"Solipsism" by Kevin J. Phyland.
"Dogtrap" by Dr. Michael Schaper.
Audio Fiction
At Beam Me Up:  Episode #342. Science Fiction and Fact.
    Featuring part 4 of Poul Anderson’s "Call Me Joe" and "Make Mine a Macchiato" by Mark Webb. As well as science news and commentary.

At Cthulhu: The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (Parts 8 & 9) Horror.
      "I suppose I must have swooned; for, the next thing I remember, I opened my eyes, and all was dusk. I was lying on my back, with one leg doubled under the other, and Pepper was licking my ears. I felt horribly stiff, and my leg was numb, from the knee, downward. For a few minutes, I lay thus, in a dazed condition; then, slowly, I struggled to a sitting position, and looked about me."

At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 07 - The Return of Tarzan Adventure.
      "Tarzan’s sojourn in Paris has come to an end. Through his friendship with the Count De Coude, he has been presented with a position as special agent of the French ministry of war."

Other Genres
Audio at Tales of Old: "When Grandpa Played Baseball" Historical Fiction.
Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Deeper" by Douglas Campbell.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Sunday Goodies

A bit later than usual, but with lots of cool freebies including, the latest issue of the Lovecraft eZine, classic SF from Project Gutenberg, and good audio fiction, flash fiction. e-books, and items from other genres.



[Art from the Lovecraft eZine, linked below.]








Fiction At Project Gutenberg: "A World by the Tale" by Randall Garrett. Science Fiction. 1963.
      "This is about the best-hated author on Earth. Who was necessarily pampered and petted because of his crime against humanity...."

Now Posted:  The Lovecraft eZine #19
"A Thousand Smokes" by W.H. Pugmire.
      "It towered, the twisted entity, above the ground-mist that enveloped me as I swept into that hollow of old oaks. I confess that it felt strange, knowing once again the uncanny sensations that I had experienced as a youngster"
"The Strange Case ofCrazy Joe Gallo" by Jeffrey Thomas.
       "Gallo first learned of the infamous, ancient book while serving a ten year sentence for extortion. Gallo was widely read – in prison he devoured the writings of Sartre, Machiavelli, Kafka, Nietzsche, and Camus – and so it was not unnatural for him to become intrigued by talk of this legendary tome."
"In the House of the Hummingbirds" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
       "If you think about it, it makes sense. After all, Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of War and patron of the city of Tenochtitlan, was the Hummingbird of the Left. The souls of dead warriors return to our world in the shape of hummingbirds. Why shouldn’t war be a flower?"
"The Treatment Room" by Kevin Crisp.
       "I have not long been a vagrant, nor will I be much longer.  This much has been determined.  I continue to run and hide, but it is merely animal instinct at work.  The man in me knows it to be futile.  My date approaches."
"Obsidian Capra Aegagrus" by Christopher Slatsky.
       "It was early afternoon- how much heroin had I mainlined already? Two grams? I could stand a lot more. I’d anticipated and funded this drug acquisition over a period of months by selling several boxes of my beloved vinyl collection"
"The Dig" by Monica Valentinelli.
        "The Voice is soft, plain, urgent. It speaks to me through shadows and sunbeams, reflections and dreams. The words creep in between my waking thoughts, insisting that I dig. I try to tell It to stop, but It won’t listen."
"Amtopians" by Logan Davis.         "I’m not going to make this sound like this is like some fairy tale or mythical tale or something like that.  It’s just a night I will never forget."

At Project Gutenberg: "Astounding Stories, March, 1931" Science Fiction.
"When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin
      "It is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain."
"Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummings.
       "The Tale of a Golden Atom—an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete Novelette.)"
"Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent.
       "One after Another the Invisible Robots Escape Shelton's Control—and Their Trail Leads Straight to the Gangster Chief Cadorna." 
"Phalanxes of Atlans" by F. V. W. Mason.
        "Never Did an Aviator Ride a More Amazing Sky-Steed Than Alden on His Desperate Dash to the Great Jarmuthian Ziggurat. (Conclusion of a Two-Part Novel.)"
"The Meteor Girl" by Jack Williamson.
        "Through the Complicated Space-Time of the Fourth Dimension Goes Charlie King in an Attempt to Rescue the Meteor Girl."
Flash Fiction

E-Books
At Amazon: Speculative Fiction The Ultimate Collection [Kindle Edition] by David K Scholes.

Via Pixel of Ink:
At Free eBooks Daily:

Audio Fiction
At Beam Me Up: "Episode #341" Science Fiction.
      Kevin Pickett’s “Bedtime Story” which ask, what do you think would be society’s reaction to a robot that become sentient? and part 3 of Poul Anderson’s “Call me Joe”

At Escape Pod: "A Querulous Flute of Bone" by Cat Rambo.  Science Fiction.
       "Aaben was such a collector. S/he was one of the geniod, whose gender varies according to mood, location, and other private considerations, and who are known, in the face of great trauma, to forget who they are and become entirely different personalities, their old selves never to be resumed or spoken of."

At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 05 - The Return of Tarzan" Adventure.
     "Tarzan of the Apes, now in Paris, has become a confidante of the Countess Olga De Code."

At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 06 - The Return of Tarzan" Adventure.
      "Tarzan has paid a visit to the evil Nicholas Rokoff. After choking the villain until his face turns black, the nefarious Rokoff has given Tarzan a signed confession of his part in the trumped-up scandal involving Olga De Coude."

At The Lovecraft eZine: Issue #19. Horror
       All stories listed in fiction have audio versions.

At SFFAudio: Two versions of Algernon Blackwood’s "The Man Who Found Out" Horror.
      "And the young doctor, thanking the gods of science that his leader's aberrations were of so harmless a character, went home strong in the certitude of his knowledge of externals, proud that he was able to refer his visions to self-suggestion, and wondering complaisantly whether in his old age he might not after all suffer himself from visitations of the very kind that afflicted his respected chief."

Other Genres
  • Audio at Classic Tales Podcast: "The Chimes, Part 1 of 4" by Charles Dickens
  • Audio at Tales of Old: "A Passing Pleasing Toungue" by Kara Race-Moore. Historical Fiction. England 1528.
  • Audio at PRI: Selected Shorts - "Remembering Isaiah Sheffer"   T.C. Boyle’s Lassie parody “Heart of a Champion,” two hilarious tales by Ian Frazier, “Dating Your Mom” and “Lamentations of the Father,” and Allan Gurganus’ mystical “It Had Wings.”
  • Fiction at Online Pulps:  "Murdered Twice" by Norman A. Daniels. Crime 1935. and "Man of the Abyss" by Hapsburg Liebe. Western 1948.
  • Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Knowledge" by Ken Elkes.
  • Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Big Game" by Greg Chase.
  • OTR at Relic Radio: "The Headstrong Corpse"  - CBS Radio Mystery Theater. 1974.
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