Part Two

A ton of great freebies for part two of today's links. More later if possible. (Photo for Selected Shorts in audio fiction below)










Fiction
• At AE: "First Date" by David Tallerman. Science Fiction.
     "How many nights has Johnny walked by the House of Mirrors? How many times has he glanced at its drab plastic facade and wondered? He was never scared to come, but they take the rules seriously in the House, it’s all legit, and if your biomet says you’re under twenty-one they won’t so much as look at you. So Johnny waited — not with patience, but with determination stubborn as faith. And now it’s time. Tonight he can do more than look."

• At Author's Site: "Craters" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction.
     "What they don’t tell you when you sign up is that the work takes a certain amount of trust. The driver, head covered by a half-assed turban, smiles a little too much, and when he yes-ma’ams you and no ma’ams you, you can be lulled into thinking he actually works for you."

• At The Colored Lens: "Blessings by the Shade" by S. L. Nickerson. Alternative History. Mythic Fantasy.
     "They still tell stories about the day I was born, of how a lilac comet streaked across the stars and the volcano ceased spitting fires to the heavens. They call it omens but I call it a conspiracy of convenience. This is what made me High Priestess, because I am blessed."

• At Cosmos: "Angels Call in Strange Disguise" by Christopher K. Miller.
     "The clown’s presence means that you are, in all probability, going to die tonight. There’s not much your sailfone hasn’t told you. They don’t send these clowns to just anyone."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Tying of Tongues" by Kristi DeMeester. 
     "When the hooded woman came to our village, her bloodied skirts trailing behind her, the old mothers whispered behind chapped hands, and the animals found their holes and hid."

• At L5R: "The Sparrow’s Fate - Part 1" by Robert Denton. Fantasy.
     "When Moshi Rukia awoke on the third and final day of her visit to the Suzume Hills, she looked out her window to find the valley covered in a thick layer of snow. She knew winter came quickly in the valley, she just didn’t know it would be this quickly."

• At Lightspeed: "The Sense of the Circle" by Angélica Gorodischer. Science Fiction.
      "Have you seen those houses on Oroño Boulevard, especially the ones that face east, those dry, cold, serious, heavy houses, with grilles but without gardens, maybe at the most a tile patio paved like the sidewalk? In one of those houses lives Ciro Vázquez Leiva, Cirito."

• At Lightspeed: "The Dream Detective" by Lisa Tuttle. Fantasy.
      "In the beginning, I was not attracted to her at all. Quite the opposite. I don’t know if it was intentional on her part, and honestly, I’m not the sort of dick who always judges women on how hot they are, but if there’s any situation in which a person’s attractiveness matters, I think everybody would agree it’s a blind date."

• At Weird Fiction Review: "The Love of Beauty" by K.J. Bishop.
     "Near the middle of the night, Seaming dithered in front of the brick arch – formerly a minor gate in the old city wall and now a decoration in a lane. If there existed a main entrance to the Ravels, it was that arch. It stood only half a furlong from the glitz of Cake Street, but the short distance marked a change of register from the demimonde to the underworld proper."

• At The WiFiles: "God’s Great Acrimony" by D. C. Golightly. Speculative Fiction.
     "I will always savor the taste of blood. Even though I starve myself of its nourishment for strictly selfish reasons I can’t help but crave the bitter embrace of its crimson flavor."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Skipping Stones" by Devin Miller.
• At Every Day Fiction: "A Day Before All of Those Nights" by Sarah Crysl Akhtar. Fantasy. 
• At Quantum Muse: "The Collider" by Harris Tobias.
• At Strange Horizons: "Origin" by Heather Sommer. Speculative Poem. Audio.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Extremophile" by Aaron Koelker. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The End of the Extinction" by Isla Kay. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Ascensual" by Daniel Martin Fairbairn. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Author's Site: "The MVP Episode #24" by Scott Sigler. Science Fiction. Football.
   No description.

• At Beam Me Up: "Part 4 of Know How Can Do" by Michael Blumlein.
    "Of course we'll wait. How silly of me to think otherwise. Science begins wit h observation, and Sheila Downey is a scientist. We'll watch and wait together, al l three of us, the woman who made me what I am, the worm that isn't there, and me."

• At Clarkesworld: "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."

• At Cthulhu: "House on the Borderland, parts 20 and 21" by William Hope Hodgson.  Horror.
     No description

• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 08 - The Beasts of Tarzan" Adventure.
     "Tarzan has fallen into Rokoff’s trap. Pursuing the Russian, Tarzan has left his comrades behind to forge ahead. He comes to a tribe of cannibals who report that Rokoff is a day ahead of them"

• At LibriVox: "Jewels of Gwahlur" by Robert E. Howard. Fantasy.
     "Conan The Barbarian is after fabulous treasure in this exciting story. But he finds himself in more difficulties than he had counted on. Crafty and powerful human opponents seek to skin him alive, bestial mutations seek to rip his arms off, denizens of the deep want to devour him whole and scantily clad dusky beauties try to waylay him at every step."

• At Lightspeed: "The Sense of the Circle" by Angélica Gorodischer. Science Fiction.
     Described Above.

• At Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: "Lost Waters" by Kreg Steppe.
     "Daniel Pleasant, agent of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, is assigned to the United States of America to track down some missing items from the Archives. Pleasant is partnered up with a clankerton from the Office of the Supernatural and Metaphysical (O.S.M.) Elijah Paxton, and together the two set off to track the missing Archive items, their power rumoured to be able to bend time and space itself."

• At Protecting Project Pulp: "Adventure’s Heart" by Albert Dorrington. Adventure.
      "A curiously carved throne of sandalwood stood at the far end of the chamber, its highly polished sides glinting with innumerable pearls inset. Above the throne gleamed a naked skull." - First published in Top-Notch, May 1, 1922.

• At Slected Shorts: "Expect the Unexpected"
     "Guest host Neil Gaiman presents tales with surprises. Jane Yolen’s “The Babysitter” is a contemporary Gothic with a twist; James Thurber’s classic “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” introduces a milquetoast with attitude; Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” anticipated our media driven lives; and Thurber’s “The Wood Duck” seems to have nine lives."

• At Toasted Cake: "Don't Look Down" by Anatoly Belilovsky.
     "A whistling in my ears: wind. It's called wind. I'm flying, flying in the wind, under the blue that's called the sky, toward the brown that's called the ground. I feel it push my hands, my legs, my face. I feel a weight against my back."


Other Genres

• Audio at The Way of the Buffalo: "The Chase" by Ken Liu. Surreal. Flash.
• Audio at Crime City Central: "Oedipus Shrugged" by Copper Smith.
• Audio at Every Day Fiction: "Twist Twist Shake" by E.M.Pearson. Suspense. Flash.
• Fiction at The New Yorker: "The Judge’s Will" by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Love Is All Around" by Raine.

Friday Freebies - Part One

A  few very good freebies from yesterday, more to come later today!






Fiction
• Now Posted: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #116.

"A Family for Drakes" by Margaret Ronald. Fantasy.
     “The boy who owned them had another pair,” she lied. Maybe he had; she hadn’t checked under his mother’s body. Probably she should have; she’d made the long trek out and back after spotting the two huddled bodies... but pulling the little boots off cold feet had taken longer than she’d thought it would, and she’d been shivering too hard to search for more. “Bron, where’s our blanket?”
"Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes" by A.B. Treadwell. Fantasy.      "The Emperor of Japan punched through the soft belly of Russia on the day of my birth. My father’s men were the iron girding the fist. He showed me how it was on a rotting melon. The flesh caved in, and seeds spilled out."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Hope, Shattered" by Brian R. McDowell.
      "Her knees were bent, and her feet rested at the edge of the mattress. Perspiration dripped from her brow and soaked the synthetic brunette hair matted on her cheek. The liquid fell in a steady stream from the android's temples instead of beading in a glow, but it was a common flaw in manufactured pores."

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "The Nymph of Limantour" by J. J. Roth. Fantasy.
• At Nature: "Canopy of Skulls" by Beth Cato.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Ghost In The Machine" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Self Defense" by Patricia Stewart. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes" by A.B. Treadwell. Fantasy.
      Described above

• At Escape Pod: "Finished" by Robert Reed. Science Fiction.
      "What did I plan? Very little, in truth. An evening walk accompanied by the scent of flowers and dampened earth, the lingering heat of the day taken as a reassurance, ancient and holy. I was genuinely happy, as usual. Like a hundred other contented walkers, I wandered through the linear woods, past lovers’ groves and pocket-sized sanctuaries and ornamental ponds jammed full of golden orfes and platinum lungfish."

• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 03 - The Beasts of Tarzan. Adventure.
     "Tarzan has fallen prey to the wiles of Nicholas Rokoff. Trapped in a steamer at sea, Tarzan knows only that his son also is in the clutches of the arch-fiend. He does not yet know that Jane has also been captured."

• At PodCastle: "Logic and Magic in the Time of the Boat Lift"by Cat Rambo and Ben Burgis. Fantasy.
     "They said the Marielitas were escoria – scum. The abuelitas muttered it to each other, and the young girls coming home from school clustered together like butterflies, looking thrilled and worried whenever the wind whistled at them. The newspapers said Miami was under siege, that Castro had loosed the worst from the Cuban prisons and madhouses."

Other Genres

• Audio at The New Yorker: “Girl” and “Wingless” by Jamaica Kincaid.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Scott Is" by Steve Calvert.

More Free Fiction Links

Many good ones today!  [art for Subterranean Magazine, linked below]











Fiction
• At the WiFiles: "Memory, Hunger" by Valerie Z Lewis. Speculative Fiction.
     "The worst part is memory. It hits her at the strangest times. She’ll be walking downtown, following the crowd, when she’ll catch a glimpse of a bit of garbage on the sidewalk. A candy wrapper. Memory. She knows she used to eat things like that, but she can’t remember what it tastes like. She doesn’t want it anymore, even though she’s hungry all the time."

Now Posted: Electric Spec Volume 8, Issue 1

"Empathy Rocks" by Mark Rigney
      "Pink fire shoots from Quencher's mouth as he thumps his blood-black bass, and the flames belch outward, singeing the hair off at least half the kids in the first three rows."
"Strange Notes from Underground" by Jennifer Crow
      "Tsar Peter, called 'the Great,' built his city in a marsh. Not the best plan, one might say, yet when the Tsar of All the Russias makes up his mind, then all that remains is for his people to do, and to die. And die they did, in their hundreds and thousands."
"The Count is the Kingdom" by Rebecca Schwarz
      "A long, dark line appeared on the horizon. I kicked the mare into a trot, my heart racing. Perhaps I'd at last arrived at the end of the world and would be able to turn back toward home. I had begun to fear that I would never see my North again."
"Heart of a Magpie" by Kathryn Yelinek
     "Marion leaned closer to the white picket fence around her new backyard at ul. Towarnickiego 27. Finally she'd found a magpie that would consider eating bread out of her hand. Just six feet away, the magpie cocked its head, its black eyes fixed on the treat in her outstretched hand."
"The Secret Life of Princes" by David Barber
      "Dichley was skyping Gelda from the 3rd International ChronoCapture Conference in London. It was raining. It had rained since he got there. There was a woman's laughter off-camera and a slim hand put a glass topped with fruit and an umbrella at the keyboard."

Now Posted: Interstellar Fiction #8.

"Robot Origins" by Bruce H. Markuson
     "It all started with the speech my son, Avid, made at the university. “We are not machines. We are sentient beings with souls. This is the gift of the ancient ones. The ancient ones have spoken, we have always said.”"
"Biggest Times Infinity" by Shane D. Rhinewald
     “I’m confident an interim government will form in time. Even anarchists beg for rule again when everything goes to shit,” Commander James Whitehall said. “Still, we’ll likely be up here beyond our original mission. That means no more devouring half a dozen dehydrated noodle bowls per day. And yes, I’m looking at you, Frank.”
"Unfinished Projects" by Darren Goossens
     "He heard a bang and, halfway through swallowing, jerked his head around. He managed to avoid spraying beer on the pizza boxes on the coffee table. Should he investigate? Of course he should. Would he?"
"Stupid Manuscripts" by Antha Ann Adkins
     "Hugh needed to ace this interview with the mysterious SM, Inc. He had looked for work for over a year, and soon he’d have to drop some of his journal subscriptions. That would be tragic.

Now Posted: SQ Mag - Edition 7.

• "Unbound" by Dan Hankner (Sci-Fi)
• "Digital Reflections" by Kevin Rainak (Sci-Fi)
• "A Minor System" by W. B. Stickel (Horror)
• "Serial Fiction: Intangible (Part 2 of 6)" by A.A. Garrison(Fantasy)
• "Surface Stars" by Hansen Hovell Holladay(SciFi)
• "Eyes of the Child" by Robert Harkess (Paranormal Fantasy)
• "My Trip to the Circus" by Jason Lairamore(SciFi)

Now Posted: Subterranean Press Magazine - Spring 2013.

"The Seafarer" by Tobias S. Buckell.
     "The ten soldiers stopped their several days of running at the edge of the red stone cliff and looked out in awe over the gray ocean. A hundred feet below them the waves thudded against the rock and they inhaled the salt spray that slowly drifted up as a fine mist."
"Painted Birds and Shivered Bones" by Kat Howard.
      "The white bird flew through the clarion of the cathedral bells, winging its way through the rich music of their tolling to perch in the shelter of the church’s walls. The chiming continued, marking time into measured, holy hours."
"A Stranger Comes to Kalimpura" by Jay Lake.
     "The older I get, the less I understand about the world. When I was young, I was filled with energetic certainty. My faith in myself was unshaken and unshakeable. Or so I like to pretend, until I revisit the courts of memory. There I realize that I understood far less than I liked to believe."
"The Indelible Dark" by William Browning Spencer.
     "He watched the car come down the mountain. The autumn trees were full of muted color, and black clouds rolled in the sky, restive monsters bloated with rain. The road unraveled in a series of switchbacks, and the car, black, shiny as a beetle, appeared and disappeared amid the trees."
"The Prayer of Ninety Cats" by Caitlín R. Kiernan.
      "In this darkened theatre, the screen shines like the moon. More like the moon than this simile might imply, as the moon makes no light of her own, but instead adamantly casts off whatever the sun sends her way. The silver screen reflects the light pouring from the projector booth."
"The Syndrome" by Brian Francis Slattery.
     "The fundamental issue with my patients, as with all the undead, is that they’ve merged with the eternal. It happens somewhere in the transition from life to undeath—their first death, they call it—and they come out of it with no ordered memory as we understand it"

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "Nixon and the Aliens" by Peter Wood. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "A Positive Alien Encounter" by J.D. Rice. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Beam Me Up: Episode 355. Science - Science Fiction.
     Julie Wornan's melancholy post apocalyptic tale "Epilog" and  part 1 of "Know How Can Do" by Michael Blumlein.

• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Beasts of Tarzan Episodes One and Two.
     "Tarzan’s arch-enemy, Nicholas Rokoff, has escaped from his prison cell in France! Almost immediately, Tarzan’s baby son is abducted."

Comic Books

• At Atomic Kommie Comics:  "Runaway Asteroid" Sci-Fi. 1969.
• At Digital Comics Museum: Planet Comics #4. Sci-Fi. 1940.
• At Paizo: Pathfinder Comics #1 is being serialized online Here (the first four pages are up)
• At War: Past, Present and Future: "Remember Makano" Sci-Fi. 1952.

Other Genres

• Audio at Tales of Old:  "Anezka" by Bruce Durham. Historical Fiction - Punic Wars. 
• Audio at Selected Shorts: Flash Forward - "Vanilla Bright Like Eminem" by Michel Faber and "North Country" by Roxane Gay".

Subterranean, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor and More

There's some great free fiction today. Beneath Ceaseless Skies has two new fantasy stories, a new SF story at Tor.com and a new issue of Subterranean Press Magazine, with four more great stories.  All these sites are fantastic, so don't even think about skipping one (We have ways of knowing). 


There are continuations of two serials, flash fiction, and more today. An interesting item in the "other genres" is the first issue of the classic mystery and short story magazine, The Strand. And more later.

[Art for Subterranean Press Magazine Winter 2013]




Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies:

"The Storms in Arisbat" by Therese Arkenberg. Fantasy

       "Semira made her way to him, unsteady as if on a rocking deck. He took her outstretched hand, and the point of contact became an anchor, and axis; something steady to work around. The fear didn’t abate, but its quality changed: from dread to dizzy panic to the icy clutch of despair. Semira thought of rushing winds, coming and abating, and of sudden downpours of rain. Of storms."

"Casualties" by Alec Austin. Fantasy.

       "For a frozen moment, I glanced between the murder-sharp blade of my athame and Bastien's stricken expression, trying to reconcile the two. Part of me wasn't sure why I hadn't slit his throat for everything he'd done and all the people he'd betrayed. Because he didn't do any of that, the rational part of me insisted. Trouble was, I remembered him stabbing Annie in the arm on the Day of Glass, and what Gretchen had become after he got to her in Gabbleford."

• At Paizo: "Thieves Vinegar - Chapter Two: The Hall of Lies" by Kevin Andrew Murphy. Fantasy. Pathfinder.
     "Newby analyzed the contents of Norret's flask, pronouncing it ninety-nine point nine percent pure will-o'-wisp essence, with the impurities mostly consisting of honeysuckle and grape. Norret nodded, and the three old men fell to talking amongst themselves."

• At Tor.com: "Am I Free to Go?" by Kathryn Cramer.

       "The line between utopia and dystopia...is, often, who you are. Or who your neighbors think you are."

• Now Posted: Subterranean Press Magazine Winter 2013.

"Surfacing" by Walter Jon Williams. Science Fiction.
      "There was an alien on the surface of the planet. A Kyklops had teleported into Overlook Station, and then flown down on the shuttle. Since, unlike humans, it could teleport without apparatus, presumably it took the shuttle just for the ride. The Kyklops wore a human body, controlled through an n-dimensional interface, and took its pleasures in the human fashion."

"The Boolean Gate" by Walter Jon Williams. Science Fiction.
     "The dining room in Guildford had yellow wallpaper with little figures on it, and a heavy mahogany sideboard, and vases with flowers that Sam, in his carelessness, was allowing to die. The window was open as a relief against the heavy August heat, but the lace curtains barely stirred."

"Hard Rain" by Steven R. Boyett.
      "Twelve miles outside of Agville they came across a silver miner half dead from the beating and the tarring he’d been given before the town ran him out on his splithoof rackribbed mule. The tar had cooked him to the bone in places and plugs of skin had festered where he had worried at patches"

 "Raptors" by Conrad Williams.
       "You were allowed to wear shorts if the weather was good. The management never turned the air conditioning on because they wanted the punters to overheat and buy more drinks. Dervla wore shorts that were more like broad belts."

Flash Fliction

• At Every Day Fiction: "Deprescience" by Mickey Hunt. Fantasy.
• At Flashes in the Dark: "Toon" by Alun Williams. Horror.
• At Nature: "An Unintended Future" by Tristan Scott. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Bath" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 10 - The Return of Tarzan. Adventure
      "Tarzan has been tricked by Lt. Gernois into accompanying a scouting party led by the suspected traitor, who has been seen in secret conversations with a mysterious Arab. Commanded to maintain a solo post in a valley in the mountains"

• At The Internet Archive: BBC's "The Foundation Trilogy" by Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov. [via SF Signal and The Verge] Science Fiction.
      "The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell. Using the law of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale; it is error-prone for anything smaller than a planet or an empire"

Other Genres

• Audio at SFFaudio: Two versions of  "Was It A Dream?" by Guy de Maupassant.
• Fiction at Project Gutenberg: The Strand Magazine, Volume I, January to June 1891 by Various.
• Flash Fiction at Flash Fiction Friday: "F3, Cycle 108 [...] The Stories"

Science and Hobbit News and a Bit More

A bit more coolness for you today.




Speculative Poetry
At Silver Blade:

• "On the Recycling Day" by Changming Yuan.
• "Expanding, Morning Mists" by Changming Yuan.
• "At an Autumn Auction" by Changming Yuan.
• "Rioting " by Changming Yuan.
• "The Plague Tree" by J. P. Wickwire.
• "Planet of the _______" by Laura Madeline Wiseman.
• "A Cautionary Note from the Time Thief " by Bruce Boston. 
• "Tinsel Rose" by Adele Gardner.

Audio Fiction
At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 08 - The Return of Tarzan
      "Now in North Africa in the small town of Sidi Aissa, Tarzan has come to the rescue of a pretty dancing girl, and has fought a roomful of angry Arab men."

At Relic Radio: "The Sense Of Wonder" -  X Minus One. Science Fiction. OTR.

Science News

• "'Time Reversal' Research May Open Doors to Future Tech" ScienceDaily.
• "Mysterious Gravity Waves May Explain Clear-Skies Turbulence" LiveScience.
• "What really caused the Oracle at Delphi to utter mad prophesies?" io9
• "Mars Rover Discovery Revealed" NYT.
• "Golden Spike Company Unveils Plans to Fly Commercial Crews to the Moon" Wired.
• "Saturn Moon Enceladus Eyed for Sample-Return Mission" Space.com
• "Should the UN govern the internet?" CBC
• "Fossilized raindrops hold clues to early Earth?" Times of India.

 Hobbit and Oz News

•  "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 13-minute TV special!"  [Video]
• "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" Review. Variety.
• "Hobbit TV spot 10 officially up" Video.
• "Sneak Peek Of Disney's "Oz The Great and Powerful"
• "Oz: The Great and Powerful Wallpapers"
• "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Wallpaper"
• "The Hobbit Movie: Will This Prequel Be as Awesome as X Men or as Terrible as The Phantom Menace"

Free Fiction Tuesday

It's already a fantastic day for free fiction and I haven't even looked at the e-book sites yet.  Strange Horizons has extra free fiction as part of it's fund drive (PRI take note - please!). There's great free fiction and flash fiction from several other great sites.  Add some audio fiction and crime stories in the "other genres" category and it's already a great day!

[Picture from "A Princess of Spain" in fiction and audio fiction]


Fiction 
At AE: "The Fade" by Dylan Sargent. Science Fiction.
      "According to the notice, Don would be completely invisible by the early hours of tomorrow morning."

At The Colored Lens: "In The Garage" by Victor Alao. Speculative Fiction.
      "I don’t have a soul; that was one of the first things my mother told me. I asked her what she meant, but she smiled and said it meant I was special. Later that day, I asked myself what it meant; it was my first question to myself, what did it mean to have no soul? From all the information that poured into me"

At Lightspeed:

"A Well-Adjusted Man" by Tom Crosshill, Science Fiction.
      "On September 3, 2045, Jim Turner shot dead an innocent girl and went home to his family a well-adjusted man. It was supposed to be a simple escapee bust, out in the projects."

"A Princess of Spain"  by Carrie Vaughn. Fantasy.
      "Catherine of Aragon, sixteen years old, danced a pavane in the Spanish style before the royal court of England. Lutes, horns, and tabors played a slow, stately tempo, to which she stepped in time."

At Strange Horizons:

 "The Hateful Brilliance of His Eyes" by Alec Austin. Speculative Fiction.

     "This fragment, recovered from the archives at Tian Jing, is the only surviving account of the deeds of Captain Liao Jun and the Celestial Ascension during their exile in barbarian lands."

"Household Management" by Ellen Klages. Speculative Fiction.

     "He is, perhaps, the worst tenant in all of London."

"Good Hunting (Part 1 of 2)" by Ken Liu. Speculative Fiction.

     "A hulijing cannot resist the cries of the man she has bewitched."

"Good Hunting (Part 2 of 2)" by Ken Liu. Speculative Fiction.

     "I dream of hunting in this jungle of metal and asphalt," she said. "I dream of my true form leaping from beam to ledge to terrace to roof, until I am at the top of this island, until I can growl in the faces of all the men who believe they can own me."

At Weird Fiction Review: "The Stone Badger" by Misha Nogha.
     "She keeps hearing badgers. She hears their shadows creeping across the frozen ground mumbling faint sounds of subterra­nean rage. She wakes to the noises of licking fur, claws sharpening, purrs and growls. In the woods sounds layer on each other." 

At The World SF Blog: "Planetfall" by Athena Andreadis. Science Fiction.
      "Through the haze of her dark blue mane, the mershadow gazed sternly at her youngest. She had often warned her not to go near the shore. Afterwards, ever would she long for the hostile land, where her skin would crack and she would wither."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "This Is Your Problem, Right Here" by David Steffen.
• At Every Day Fiction: "Like Braces For Broken Teeth" by Emily C. Skaftun. Horror. Science Fiction.
• At Flashes in the Dark: "Best Episode Ever" by Chad Case. Horror.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Darkness" by Jack Holt. Science Fiction.

At Strange Horizons:

• "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds, by Mike Allen. Poem
• "All the Mari's Parties" by Mat Joiner. Poem
• "The Architect of Snow Michele Bannister. Poem

Audio Fiction
At LibriVox: Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Adventure.
       "This book follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar chronologically. The action is set during World War I. While away from his plantation home in East Africa, invading German troops destroy it and kill his wife Jane and the Waziri warrior Wasimbu who is left crucified."

At Lightspeed: "A Princess of Spain"  by Carrie Vaughn. Fantasy.
    Described above

At SFFAudio: "The Other Celia" adapted from the short story by Theodore Sturgeon.
     "Something drastic should happen to all snoopers – but nothing as awful and frightful as this!"  First published in Galaxy Magazine, March 1957.

Other Genres

• Audio at Protecting Project Pulp: “Ten Dollars & No Sense” by Tom Thursday. Crime.
• Fiction at Author's Site: "Incident At Lonely Rocks" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Crime.
• OTR at Relic Radio: "Heads You Lose" - Suspense. Mystery.

Back for More, eh?

Some very good freebies today! (I know I say that often, but it's always true.)  From modern fantasy at Black Gate to classic science fiction at LibriVox, there's something for everyone. And if for some unfathomable reason you want a break from these genre's, there are a couple of good entries in the other genres category.  And be sure to check out Best science Fiction stories and Variety SF for reviewed free fiction (with links to the free stories) and the latest SFFAudio podcast which discusses the free, serialized Tarzan of the Apes podcast.

[Art from the "The Poison Well" linked below.]





Fiction
At Black Gate: "The Poison Well" by Judith Berman. Fantasy.
       "Manvayar urged Raven down the bank of the high road and onto the lane, into the green shadows of the forest. He noticed that the country folk had done some cutting and coppicing along the edge of the lane, but further in the wood was an impenetrable tangle. The lord of this place had not even fired the brush for hunting".

At The WiFiles: "Weaver’s Needle" by Nancy Cole Silverman. Speculative Fiction.
     "It happened more than forty years ago, but there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about it.  Sometimes the memory’s prompted by some TV news story, ‘bout someone who has gotten themselves lost in the Superstition Mountains outside Phoenix. Story never ends well."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Speed of Love" by Deborah Walker.
• At Quantum Muse: "Skin and Scale"  by Patricia Todd.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Life Star" by Jae Miles. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 04 - The Return of Tarzan Adventure.
      "Tarzan has been waylaid in the Rue Maule by a band of cut-throats in the rooms of a woman under the sway of the evil Nicholas Rokoff. "

At LibriVox: "Naudsonce"  by H. Beam Piper. Science Fiction.
      "Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider...."

At Toasted Cake: "Super Psych" by J. M. Vogel. Paranormal.
     "The supernatural set could be so sensitive."

Old Time Radio

• At Journey Into: "Lieutenant Hornblower: The Landing" by C.S. Forester. Adventure.
• At Relic Radio: "Homicide House" - The Haunting Hour. Horror. 1944.

Other Genres

• Audio at Crime City Central: "Out On Joppa" by Robert War.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "A Muse’s Tale" by Rohini Gupta.

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.

Free Fiction for Nov. 1

 Awesome free fiction (in several categories), likely more later.





Fiction
At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "After Compline, Silence Falls" by  M. Bennardo. Fantasy.
       "As I rub down the pony after returning from Biyen’s farm, Frère Bruno steps silently into the stable, his hands and forearms still smelling of the sweet wort he has been straining from the barley mash. He has something to say, but he is waiting to be spoken to."
 At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "They Make of You a Monster" by Damien Walters Grintalis. Fantasy.
      "The Healers, three women draped in robes of red, enter her cell. They don’t say a word. She keeps silent when they grab her. Twists away from their grasp. Fights against them with all the strength she can summon."
At GigaNotoSaurus: "Woman of the Sun, Woman of the Moon" by by Benjanun Sriduangkaew. SF.
      "It is the aftermath of the world’s end, and nine birds–nine suns–lie dead while Houyi cradles the curve of her bow, her fingers locking around the taut hardness of its string. The tenth sun, the last, has fled. Chastise them, Dijun said, a father’s plea."
At Kasma SF: "The Unfortunate Necessity of Regular Upgrades" by C.J. Page. Science Fiction.
      "Ahead the remains of a man hang, held up by a crystalline something that's grown from the wall and into him. He's swollen as though overinflated, full of the stuff, and a mass of crystal shards sprouts from his mouth, nostrils, and empty eyesockets."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Susumu Must Fold" by Tony Pi. Science Fiction.
• At Eschatology:  "Just Your Average Tuesday at the Slaughterhouse" by Ives Hovanessian. Horror.
• At Flashes in the Dark: "Part of Me" by Sue Sekar. Horror.
• At Innsmouth Free Press: "You are never supposed to open the door" By David C. Kopaska-Merkel. Horror. Poem.
• At Lovecraft eZine: “Halloween in a Suburb” by H.P. Lovecraft. Horror. Poem.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "End of the Universe Theories" by James Bambury. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
 At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Luck Fish" Peta Freestone. Fantasy.
      "Masozi holds the twitching fish carcass above his head, out of Themba's reach. "Make your own luck this year, little lion." He takes another bite and tries to grin, but it's all he can do not to cringe as a single fish scale cuts into the gum between his two front teeth."
At Decoder Ring Theater:  Red Panda - "The Missing Links" Noir. Superhero.
      "The city is held in a grip of terror as ordinary men and women go missing in a series of freakish electrical storms. Is it an occult menace? A Nazi plot against the city?"
At Drabblecast: "My True Lovecraft Gave to Me" by  Eric Lis. Horror.
      " I have loved working here, and I am very sorry to leave, but I fear that if I remain any longer, my health and my sanity will be forfeit. Perhaps if I explain the events of weeks, it will become clearer why I have to quit."
At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 27 - Tarzan of the Apes. Adventure.
      "Tarzan and D’Arnot have made their way to civilization. Arriving in Paris, D’Arnot has taken Tarzan to visit his friend, a police inspector who is an expert in fingerprints."
At SFFAudio:  "The Pit And The Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe. Horror.
     "I was sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence -- the dread sentence of death -- was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears."


Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Twice Alive" Sci-Fi.  Horror.
At The Comic Book Catacombs: "Ghost of the Un-Dead" Horror.
At Diversions of the Groovy Kind:"Never Walk on a Grave!" Horror.
At The Horrors of It All: "Change... into Something Comfortable / Trick or Treat" Horror.
At Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: “We Ain't Got No Body! / Tombs-Day" Horror.
At Seduction of the Innocent: "I am a Zombie!" Horror.

Other Genres
At Every Day Fiction:  "Souvenir" by Vaidehi. Flash.

Freebies to start the weekend.

More good freebies. There are quite a few very good audio fiction stories today, as well as very good fiction, flash fiction, and more.  Back soonish.




Fiction
At Cosmos: "Anterior View" by Brenda Kalt. Science Fiction.
      "The display was impressive, but the box was heavy – full of data leaves, potentially a full view. Of something."

At Daily Science Fiction:  "Phone Booth" by Holli Mintzer. Science Fiction.
      "There aren't a lot of zeppelins these days to anchor at them, just like there aren't many ships in the harbor, but the masts are still there: two or three big freight elevators apiece, caged in a lattice of iron struts and steel cable."

At Project Gutenberg:  The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.  Science Fiction. 1912/1915.
      "is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912." Wikipedia.

At Tor.com:  "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain. 1888. Horror.
      "The fire had burned low. A sense of loneliness crept over me. I arose and undressed, moving on tiptoe about the room, doing stealthily what I had to do, as if I were environed by sleeping enemies whose slumbers it would be fatal to break."

Reviewed at Variety SF: "Tumithak of the Corridors" by Charles R Tanner. Science Fiction. 1932.
      "It is only within the last few years that archeological science has reached a point where we may begin to appreciate the astonishing advances in science that our ancestors had achieved before the Great Invasion"

Flash
At 365 tomorrows: "Fallen" by Steve Smith. Science Fiction.
At Weirdyear: "Skull Collection" by Rob Bliss.

Audio
At Cast of Wonders: "The Great Game, Part 5 – The Dark Continent" by James Vachowski. YA.
      "Light a lamp, child, and be quick about it. The day is fading, and my eyes are not what they once were. Ah, that’s the rub. This room closes in when night falls."

At Classic Tales Podcast: Carmilla part 4 of 4 by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
      "The General’s story comes to its horrifying conclusion, and the mystery of Carmilla is finally unearthed" Also parts one, two, and three.

At Escape Pod:  "Lion Dance" by Vylar Kaftan. Science Fiction.
      "Matt was loud–even a flu mask didn’t muffle his bellowing.  I swear, even though every restaurant in San Francisco Chinatown had been closed since February, tourists still cruised the streets.  Even a pandemic couldn’t stop them completely."

At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs:  Episode 25 - Tarzan of the Apes. Adventure.
      "Tarzan has fled into the jungle upon discovering that Jane Porter has departed his cabin. Paul D’Arnot remains there. Considering D’Arnot’s helplessness in the jungle, Tarzan reconsiders and starts back for the cabin."

At LibriVox: Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany. Flash Dark Fantasy.
      Horned Pan was still and the dew was on his fur; he had not the look of a live animal. And then they said, "It is true that Pan is dead."

At LibriVox: Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle. Children's Fantasy.
     "Once upon a time there was a poor widow who had only one son, and he was so dear to her that no one could have been dearer. All the same she was obliged to send him out into the world to seek his fortune, for they were so very poor that as long as he stayed at home they were like to starve."

At Pseudopod: "Pumpkinhead" by Rajan Khanna. Horror.
     "He was my employer, but more than that, he was a celebrity, and a close personal friend of the queen. In fact, if it weren’t for his imminent need, she would be the one about to carve this pumpkin for him. He was basically part of the royal family."

At Tales to Terrify: "304 Adolph Hiltler Strasse" by Lavie Tidha.
     "They called him by his real name, which was Hanzi, but they knew who he really was and he knew then that it was over; the knowledge washed him in lethargy, and a sense of futility made him open his hands as if in a shrug, his fat fingers opening limply, sweat dampening his palms."


Old Time Radio
At Relic Radio: "Carmilla" by Columbia Workshop. Horror. 1940.

Other Genres
Audio at Ellery Queen: “Safe and Loft” by John Lutz. Mystery.
Flash at Every Day Stories:  "Uncle Fida’s Eid" by Sarah Crysl Akhtar. Humor.
Flash at Spinetingler: "Pool and Ice Cream" by Peter Anderson.
Text at Project Gutenberg: The Siege of Norwich Castle by Matilda Maria Blake. Historical Fiction. Medieval. 1983.

A Few Freebies For Monday.

 Just a few goodies this morning, including a pair of classic SF stories ("The Final Figure" illustrated to the left.), some flash fiction, and a fair amount of fiction from other genres. 









Fiction
At Project Gutenberg: "The Final Figure" by Sam Merwin. Science Fiction.
    "MacReedy was both valuable and dangerous—and when the general saw MacReedy's final figure, the weapons following the mobile rocket A-missile launcher...." from Dynamic Science Fiction January 1954.
At Project Gutenberg: "The Onslaught from Rigel" by Fletcher Pratt. Science Fiction.
    "A jagged beam of flame, intenser than the hottest furnace leaped through the air, struck the green globe and reached the earth in a thousand tiny rivulets of light." from Wonder Stories Quarterly Winter 1932.

Flash Fiction
At Daily Science Fiction: "Blue Sand" by Caroline M Yoachim.
At Quantum Muse: "What Great Service" by Michele Dutcher.
At 365 Tomorrows: "A Chance" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 22 - Tarzan of the Apes.
       "The search party for Jane Porter has been attacked by natives from Mbonga’s village, and D’Arnot has been taken."

Other Genres
Audio at Crime City Central: "Redemption Cove" by Brendan DuBois. Mystery.
Audio at PRI: Selected Shorts "Favorites from One Story Magazine"
     "Hannah Tiniti and Jim Shepard curate an hour with L. Annette Binder's heart-rending portrait of a lonely woman with gigantism, "Nephilim," read by Colby Minifie.  Then Tom Barbash puts a rueful spin on a Thanksgiving Day Parade ritual in "Balloon Night," read by Tom Cavanagh.  Finally, Shepard himself delivers up the end of the world in "Cretan Love Song," read by Joe Morton."
Audio at Tales of Old: "The Odor of Sanctity" by Lillian Csernica. Historical fiction.
     "Sieur Phillipe was a tall, stocky man with hair like thinning cornsilk. Over his chainmail byrnie Sieur Phillipe wore a velvet surcoat, the left side scarlet and the right bright yellow." 
Now Posted: Yellow Mama #34.
     Cutting edge, hardboiled, horror, literary, noir, and psychological/horror stories.

Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) and Cool Classic Comics

It's Sunday so it's time for another episode of Lt. Bob's Moooooovvviiiieeee or "It came from the Internet Archive" Today its Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) "A pair of comical soldiers investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and discover several beautiful alien vixens who plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters" IMDb. [Notice - if you watch this movie, we are not responsible for grease stains on your monitor caused by you throwing popcorn at the screen - The QD legal staff]

And a cool collection of classic comics for your enjoyment - All better than the film. Happy reading and watching.

Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) Sci-Fi/Comedy.

Or download it at the Internet Archive.







@Atomic Kommie Comics: "Garden of Eden" Science Fiction. (1958).

"a tale with spectacular Jack Kirby/Al Williamson artwork combining both realistic 1950s spacesuits and architecture and way-out technology and alien costuming."

@Four-Color Shadows: "Neptina, Queen of the Deep" Science Fiction (1939).

A story likely inspired by the Flash Gordon comic strip and Atlantis myths.

@Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "The Birth of Death" Fantasy. (1974).

B&W classic illustrated by Jim Starlin

@The Comic Book Catacombs: Jungo the Man-Beast in "The Giant Jaguar" (1946). Adventure.

"Phil Gant was famous for his movie serial role of "Jungo" until a blow on the head convinced him that he actually was the very jungle lord that he had been portraying."

@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Tarzan in "The Terribs" (1951). Adventure.

The original jungle hero.

@The Horrors of It All: "Wolves of Midnight / The Horrible Trade" Horror.

"a double shot of horrific animal horrors"

@Digital Comics Museum: Rocketman #1, Fight Comics #37, Forbidden Worlds #14, #23, #28, #34, #35, #37, #45, and #46.

Free E-zines, Fiction, Star Trek, Comics, Movies, and More.

Wow, lazy space captain prepared a full post today? Must be some sort of plot. There are several good free fiction stories (Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror) including some flash fiction for those in a hurry. Audio fiction including Beam Me Up, Pseudopod, and Star Trek fan audio. Videos, cool comics, and more. And Lt. Bob presents his streaming Mooooovviiiiiieeee!!!




Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

"When Holt and Arlington show Jane some of the modern clothes and perfumes they brought from civilization, she is impressed but not enough to return. Tarzan wrestles every wild animal imaginable to protect Jane but when he disallows the expedition from plundering ivory from the elephant burial grounds, it is he who takes a bullet from Arlington's gun."







E-Zines
Issue #1 of Oniresmes "a bilingual webzine (English - French), dedicated to publishing short fiction and poetry that belong in the fields of speculative and fantastic literature (Fantasy, Science fiction, and all kinds of interstitial experiments)." is online (and available in epub and mobi downloads). Oddly requires a free membership to read/download. Featuring fiction:
"The Prophet's Daughters" by Michael J. DeLuca."Herophile, Prophet of Sybaris, stopped breathing. There was no noise, no cough, no rattle. Her breath had been so soft its absence hardly made a difference.""

A Map of the World on the Shell of a Snail" by Lavie Tidhar."The map came to me from my uncle, the Great Ormond (they named the children’s hospital after him)."

and "She in Ashes" by Claude Mamier
"At the time there was nothing but darkness and warmth. It felt soft, and moist, the clamor of the outside world could not reach her shelter, and so did not exist."


Cafe Irreal #38 "a quarterly webzine that presents a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English." [Magic Realism] is online with
Qualia by Andrew S. Taylor.
"The river has produced a number of extraordinary outcomes. When flowing under the bridge at night, it transforms the objects that float upon its surface."
A Woman On the Bus by Bob Thurber.
"The next time he saw her she was no longer pregnant, which he thought rather odd."
Hell by Remy de Gourmont
"Now he distilled the filthy sulfurs in the reddening vessel, stirred the pitch in the devil’s cauldron, cooked the tar sauce, measured the doses of boiling oil, dipped the Beloved’s blond hair and Lovers’ beards in resin, for their anniversaries of enchantment."
House of the Letter L by Owen Kaelin.
"The house of L is a tricky one, so tricky that at first we lose the butler, and then our shoes."
Glass Animals by Stephen V. Ramey.
"As best Malcolm could read, the sign had said “No Glass Animals in Pool.” The sign lied."
City by Maggie Mountford.
"Morag paid for the city in cash. She didn’t want any record. She bought the whole package: streets, boulevards, alleys, monuments, administrative offices, shopping malls, houses, statues, and people."

E-Fiction
@Amazon: Dead Girl Walking by Linda Joy Singleton (Kindle Only) [via SF Signal]
"Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden has a lousy sense of direction—so lousy that she takes a wrong turn when returning from her near-death experience. She ends up in the body of the most popular girl in school, who has just tried to commit suicide."


@Small Beer Press: "Girl in a Whirl" by Joan Aiken. [via SF Signal]
"Her name was Daisy and she was a smasher, the crispest colleen in Killyclancy. Only, as misfortune would have it, old Mr Mulloon said she was unlucky"

@Suvudu: "Music Makers" by Kate Wilhelm (PDF). [via SF Signal]
"In this case, the protagonist is not one of those music makers to whom the title refers, but the music works its magic on him none the less."

Classic Fantasy
@Book View Cafe: "Dealing in Futures" by Judith Tarr, from WitchFantastic, ed. Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW 1995).
“Pigs,” says Circe, who crashed the meeting on a technicality. “Pork futures. Swine plague in—was it Gondwanaland?”








@Pendant Production: Free fan audio and original audio fiction downloads (all in glorious MP3).

• Episode 56 of Star Trek: Defiant
  
• Episode 4x11 of The Kingery
  
• Issue 48 of Supergirl: Lost Daughter of Krypton
  
• Issue 76 of Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
  
• Episode 19 of Genesis Avalon
  
• Issue 3 of Green Arrow: Shooting Star

@Beam Me Up: Episode #260 part two (the conclusion) of "The Heretic’s Son" by Fox Dunham.
"The ship is an ancient generation ship and it is wearing out. The prophet needs to come soon to guide the people to nu ome. Cody is sick and near death and nothing seems to make sense."

@Giant Gnome Productions: fan audio Star Trek Outpost Episode 24 "Drawing"
"With a great many things hanging in the balance, the denizens of DS3 learn that of all the things that can be hidden, the truth is the most difficult of all."

@Beware the Hairy Mango: all by Matthew Sanborn Smith [via SF Signal]

• Episode 55: "The Stupidity of Washing Fish"
• Episode 54: "Me and My Big Head"
• Episode 53: "Sane Cow Disease"

@Cthulhu: "The Mask of Romek" by T.C. McQueen part two (the conclusion).
"I started with the basement, the outlines in blood and chalk a mute testament to recent history. Other than the crime scene it was neat to an obsessive compulsive level, just like his office."

@Pseudopod: Episode 228 "Flash On The Borderlands VII" featuring:

• "Hunting" by Kirsty Logan, by Rick Stringer.
• "What Makes You Tick?" by David Steffan, read by W. Ralph Walters.
• "Pageant Girls" by Caroline Yoachim, read by Mur Lafferty.

@Eschatology: "The Girl With Two Heads" by Richard Beland.
@Weirdyear: "Notch and Cages" by Lyla Abi-Saab.
@365 tomorrows: "Plaque" by Marlan Smith.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Hope Bites" by E. Cheshire.
@Flash Fiction Friday:

• J.J. Ulm – “The Sword Excalibur”
• C.M. Stewart – “Stank Hen”
• Ingrid Hardy – “St. Elmo”
• Marlan – “Suffer The Little Foxes”
• Doc Shaw – “Scornful Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings”
• Veronica Marie Lewis-Shaw – “Sappho of Toulouse to Saturn's Tree”
• Evan Henry – “Scotch Mist”
• Rose Green – “Swords Prohibited”
• Joyce Juzwik – “Sixes and Sevens”
• Brandy Heinrich – “St. Monday”
• Barbara Bruederlin – “Sanctum Sanctorum”

@YouTube: Mortal Kombat: Legacy is now up to episode 4
"Mortal Kombat: Legacy brings to life the complex and rich history of the gaming world of MORTAL KOMBAT. Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung are obsessed with reigning over various realms (parallel universes) and the winners of Mortal Kombat competitions are granted supreme control over these worlds."

@the Internet Archive: The Revenge Of Dr. X [1970] aka Venus Flytrap or The Revenge Of Doctor X.
"A NASA scientist vacations in japan where he uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures...misleading title there's no revenge and he's not doctor x.. based on the Frankenstein story"


Fan Film: @Star Trek: Phase II "Enemy: Starfleet"
"Attacked while exploring a new sector of space, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew find themselves thrust in the middle of a war. The USS Eagle, lost eight years before, is now in the clutches of a woman who bends starships and their captains to her will and has been reverse engineered into a fleet that is bent on domination and genocide. The Enterprise may be the only ship able to stop the Peshan homeworld from falling to Alersa and her enemy starfleet." This is the series that has had George Takei and Walter Koenig guest star in separate episodes. This issue guest Barbara Luna from the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror"







@DriveThruComics and Renderwrx Productions: Renderwrx Magazine #1.
"It's a free 40 page online magazine with commentary about varied aspects of the comic book industry. Plus it contains exclusive previews of upcoming comics, art and writing contests, interviews with comic book creators and lots more."



@The Horrors of It All: "The Stone Man!" and "Tower of Death!" classic monster and horror comics from Venus #17 (1951).




@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "Beowolf the Mighty" The Beowulf story re-imagined with Grendal being a T-Rex.

@Digital Comics Museum: Spotlight Comics #1, an anthology with stories of many genres, including a very cheesy skiffy story staring "Barry Kuda" and Merma, queen of the sunken city. CBR.

@The Comic Reading Library: The Invades #1 (1967). Based on the TV Series. Online.

@Atomic Kommie Comics: "The Hammer of Thor" (1959). Not the marvel superhero.

Other Coolness
@My Star Trek Scrapbook: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" article scanned from Home Video Guide (Oct. 1987).

@Monster Magazine World: "Monsters Are Forever" and "Scenes From Great Classic Horror Stories" Comic book/magazine articles on monsters and classic horror.