Free Friday Audio Fiction

Some very good free audio fiction this morning, including the Jules Verne classic Around the World in 80 Days, now complete. I'm having some minor formatting issues this morning so if things look a bit off, sorry. 


Audio Fiction

• At Clarkesworld: "Stone Hunger" by N. K. Jemisin, read by Kate Baker.
"Once there was a girl who lived in a beautiful place full of beautiful people who made beautiful things. Then the world broke. 

Now the girl is older, and colder, and hungrier. From the shelter of a dead tree, she watches as a city—a rich one, big, with high strong walls and well-guarded gates—winches its roof into place against the falling chill of night. "






• At The Classic Tales PodCast: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Adventure.
Now complete: Parts ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, and NINE.
"Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of stringent and inflexible habits, proposes that he can circumvent the globe in 80 days.  He wagers half of his fortune to this effect. But are his motives really as straightforward as he would have you believe?  Jules Verne, today on The Classic Tales Podcast."

• At PodCastle:  "America Thief" by Alter S. Reiss, read by John Michnya. Fantasy.
"I looked around the table. Most of the people there weren’t paying much attention. Lansky looked a little embarrassed, and Siegel shook his head. “You want me to find out if Chaim Goldberg can turn lead into gold, or if he’s running some sort of scam,” I said."







• At Tales to Terrify: Episode No. 139: “His Pale Blue Eyes” by David A. Riley narrated by Antoinette Bergin and “Suicide Chef” by Bill Ferris. Horror.

In "His Pale Blue Eyes," a young girl must save her parents from zombies and in "Suicide Chef," "a chef finds a way to save his struggling restaurant, but with deadly consequences."

Do You Wanna Party? It's Free Fiction Time

Even more free fiction! What a good day!  For even more, including e-books, be sure to check out Regan Wolfrom's fantastic free links at SF Signal.  [Art from Kaleidotrope Autumn 2013, linked below]







Fiction
• At Author's Site: "The Voodoo Project" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Urban Fantasy. 2012.
     "Rebekah uses her Sight to fight for good. She works for the Voodoo Project, although her work involves psy ops, not voodoo. She fears retirement and a normal life. So she keeps working, going on missions, never knowing when her next mission will be her last. Because she can see anyone’s future—except her own."

At Short Story.me:

• "The Boy Who Called The Naga" by Michael Schaper. Fantasy.
      "When Vanchay was born, the old village shaman declared him unusual, one to look out for. A boy who could call naga. The boy's mother looked at him, puzzled and a little frightened, but proud as well. She lay on the small birthing bed whilst below them the mighty Mekong rushed by, and for a minute she thought she could hear the water serpent move below."

• "Message in a Rock" by Stewart Mc Kay. Horror.
     "Finally he forces it into my hand and, right enough, it's incredibly light. The colour and the shape remind me of a terracotta bathroom tile, one with irregular, smoothed edges. Is it made of polystyrene? A film prop?"

Now Posted: Quantum Muse - October 2013.

• "The Haunted House " by Harris Tobias- - Alternative.
     "You shouldn't try to do scary on the cheap."

• "Slacker Zombie" by Stephen Hernandez. Alternative.
     "Short horror story for the Halloween edition"

• "Béba Daio's Prayers" by Chris DelGuercio. Alternative.
      "A failing New Orleans store owner calls on a local voodoo priestess to help his business. But at what cost?"

• "The Mortician's Confession" by Michele Dutcher. Science Fiction.
      "The mortician on a small island comes beating frantically on his best friend's door, whispering about cults, and secret books. What could have him so upset?"

• "Grim Park" by Robert Hegwood. Science Fiction.
      "People hear voices in Grim Park, or rather a voice…sometimes when the need is great. It's clearest near the old hanging tree, and if it's in the mood the voice may tell you more than you want to hear."

• "Dr Mephistopheles" by Alex Mair. Alternative.
      "Halloween submission - Sludworth College has a new GCSE chemistry teacher, a man who comes with dark secrets and harbors diabolical intentions. Can the chemistry class stop him before it's too late? Warning - contains weird British acronyms like 'GCSE', 'BBC' and 'A level'."

Now Posted Kaleidotrope Autumn 2013:

• "Mister Bob" by Dan Campbell     
       “It all began with the chicken in the end of the road,” she said.  

• "Lightning Strikes" by Lindsey Duncan     
      "Storm-clouds gathered over the city of Calrhayas, immense hands catching the smoke from fires below. In her training, Diyesari had learned of diviners who could read the future in fallen ash; there was too much here to interpret, and only one possible answer." 

• "Lone White Seagull" by Geoffrey W. Cole     
      "The first officer announced that the plane was lost three hours after they entered the cloud."

• "Camouflage" by Eden Robins     
      "Today, I’m taking the train to the end of the line. Then I’m going to get on another train and another, and eventually I’ll end up in Wisconsin. And then? I’ll keep going north to where the trains stop. Is there a train to Nunavut? To the Arctic Circle? I intend to find out." 

• "Heart-Song" by Danielle Davis.
       "Nycalla shifts on the dusty ground, unnerved by the shouting of the crowd. The voices of the Men rattle the soil beneath her, cluttering her senses with their vibrations and setting her tail to twitching." 

• "Nice"” by Jamie Mason     
       "It is the anniversary of the Overthrow. The execution of Emile Vonnegut, child frightener, has just been broadcast and Michelle Michelle, host of Group Spank (“your liNk’s social equity enforcement program”) is announcing the round-up of four thousand middle-aged Eurasian grandmothers for their collective violations of the Kindarchy’s Social Consideration Code. A festive mood prevails. People are in the streets."

Poetry
At Kaleidotrope. Speculative Poetry.

• "Picking Up Aliens: A Guide" by John Grey.
• "Propelled by Beauty" by Dan Smith. 
• "Musings of a Tower Jockey" by Bruce Golden.
• "Implants" by Noel Sloboda.

 Audio Fiction
• At Apex Magazine: "Becca at the End of the World" by Shira Lipkin
     "She has about an hour, we think. And I have about an hour on this camera, an obsolete Flip mini. I guess all cameras are obsolete now. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a device on which to play this. But she wants to do it. And right now, Becca gets anything she wants. Ice cream or a visit to the zoo, a stolen car or a cliff dive; for the next hour, Becca gets anything and everything she wants."

• At Clarkesworld: "The Symphony of Ice and Dust" by Julie Novakova read by Kate Baker.
     “It’s going to be the greatest symphony anyone has ever composed,” said Jurriaan. “Our best work. Something we’ll be remembered for in the next millennia. A frail melody comprised of ice and dust, of distance and cold. It will be our masterpiece.”

Belatedly Celebrating the Birth . . . Scott Baker

Scott Baker (born 29 September 1947 )
  A World  Fantasy Award Winning Writer, Baker "may be the only person to hold a Masters of Arts degree in Speculative Fiction" (Wikipedia).  His website is here.












Fiction
• At Author's Site: "Brother Goo" Children's Science Fiction.
     "Mike had always been an odd little brother, but this was out there even for him. It wasn’t the wheelchair that made him odd; it wasn’t his fault the muscles in his legs didn’t develop right. But he had this crazy idea that he was going to be an astronaut, that one day he would go to another planet and meet aliens"

Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction:

• "ZFL" near future zombies.
• "The Drake’s Eye" Urban fantasy/horror.
• "How Quickly We Forget" Near-future sci-fi.

Audio Fiction
At Escape Pod:

• "Chasers" Science Fiction.
     "He could see his objective ahead of him, the enormous Drifter-class colony ship Calypso barreling through space on her inertial journey from Earth to Terra III.  Since she carried no fuel for deceleration, Calypso would travel through space forever without Chasers like Sebastian.  It was the job of a Chaser to run down Drifters and fill their tanks.  The job had sounded easy when he signed with Mulligan Mining eight months ago.  But despite nine arrivals since then, Sebastian has not made one catch"

• "Leech Run" Science Fiction.
      "The inhabitants of Galileo Station parted as Titan moved among them. Not one made eye contact, but all gawked furtively. One of Titan’s dark eyes glared back down at the throng; the other eye remained hidden behind a curtain of stark white hair. Conspicuous appearance was his curse. What bystander would forget a snow-capped mountain of dark muscle? Memorability was not an asset for someone like him."

More

More great free fiction for you, including e-books, two poetry (fantasy and spec. fiction) ezines, online fiction and audio fiction.  [Art from Perchance to Dream (The Amazing Morse) by James Rozoff. in e-books]













Fiction
At Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: "Bob the Butcher" by Kyle Dorsey,  narrator Matt Grant.
     "The mask was different from other masks I’d seen in many ways. The texture had me curious as to what it might be made out of. To hold the mask in place, two leather straps ran along the back and connected to the sides. I placed the mask back onto the desk and continued my inspection. At the side of the desk sat a large box which was covered in dust" Audio version at same link.

• At Dark Futures: "Isolation Run"  by Tom Howard . Science Fiction.[via SF Signal]
      “Pilot Fuller,” said the distant voice from the nearby Pau Tai system, a more populated region where his company’s station relayed communications between the Cluster and galactic central. “It is fortunate you were delayed at your last port. Please remain calm. A ship is in distress in your area, and we need you to rendezvous with it and provide assistance pursuant to space directive 137.”

• At Mad Scientist Journal: "Dr. Derosa’s Resurrection: Part IV" by R.G. Summers. Science Fiction.
     "On the day that I was to break my father out of prison, I woke up to the sound of sirens in the streets below. I stumbled out of bed, rubbing my eyes and walking to the window to see what all the commotion was about. I snapped out of my groggy state when I saw what was happening in the street below."

Poetry
At Through the Gate: "Fantastical" poems.

• "Boat-husk" by Sara Norja
• "Flee to Far Shores" by Bogi Takács
• "Resh" by Rose Lemberg
• "Mountain" by Mari Ness
• "Mari Mild" by Sonya Taaffe

• Now Posted Inkscrawl #6  (21 short speculative poems)

E-Books
At Amazon:

• Perchance to Dream (The Amazing Morse) by James Rozoff. Dark Fantasy.
• True of Blood (Witch Fairy Series) by Bonnie Lamer. Paranormal. [via Pixel of Ink]

At Free eBooks Daily:

• The Blue Velvet by Kathleen Andrews Davis. Ya Time Travel.
• Disrupt by Imran Siddiq. Fantasy Romance.
• Mail From The Dead by Andrew Eyes. YA Horror. 
• Shadowbound by Kathlena L. Contreras. Fantasy.
• Dead Man's Hand by Richard Levesque. Zombies.
• The Rescue by Alana Siegel. YA Fantasy.
• Pure by Catherine Mesick YA Paranormal Romance.
• The Temporal Man by Robert Appleton. Time Travel Romance. 
• The Fivefold Prophecy by J. Aaron Flynn. Fantasy.
• The Fire Stone by L.A. Young. Fantasy and Romance.

Other Genres
• Audio at Selected Shorts: "A Thurber Festival"

Free E-Books, Vampires, and Zombies

There are a few goodies for you this evening.  In addition to the e-books, there's a vampire story by the master story-teller Kristine Kathryn Rusch, new episodes of Pseudopod (always great) and The AntiSF Radio Show, and some good stuff in other genres for those willing to leave their spec. fiction comfort zones. [Art from "Victims" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.]









Fiction
• "Victims" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Paranormal.
     "Reese Catton manages campaigns. The dirty side of campaigns. And he has dirt suggesting that his candidate’s opponent is a vampire’s slave."


E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• A Question of Will by Alex Albrinck Science Fiction.
• Taste For Blood: Stir by Jenna Bernel. YA Paranormal.
• Fang Chronicles: Amy's Story by D'Elen McClain. Paranormal Romance.
• End of Dreams by Kim Faulks. Dark Fantasy. Horror. 
• Sapphire Magic: Breaking Glass by John Booth. Fantasy.
• Cipher by Cindi Madsen. Fantasy. 
• Lost by Ren Cummins. Fantasy.
• Dark Legacy by M. A. Anderson. Vampire Crime Fiction.
• Returning Home by Molli Fields. Dark Fantasy.
• Jane, Actually by Jennifer Petkus. Science Fiction Romance.

Audio Fiction
• At Antipodean: "The AntiSF Radio Show 182" Speculative Fiction.
     "G'day fellow flash speculative fiction hominids. Oh yes, perhaps other life-forms as well. This is the AntipodeanSF Radio Show 182, featuring all of the stories from Issue number 182 of the online magazine and e-book"

• At Pseudopod: "Enough With The Crazy" by Emile Dayne, read by Joe Scalora. Horror. Zombies.
     "People – men and women and children – faces twisted into grimaces, attacking an elderly couple from all sides, bringing them down, tearing at their clothes and at their flesh. By this exact hydrant. Blood falling where the ketchup was now."

Other Genres
Audio at Selected Shorts: "High Society" and "Dorothy Parker's Wicked Pen"
Fiction at The New Yorker: "Bad Dreams" by Tessa Hadley.
Fiction at The Western Online: "Across Time" by Kathy Otten. Western.

Free Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror.

'nuff said





Flash Fiction

• At Beware The Hairy Mango: "The Joy of Manufacturing" Audio. Weird.
• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Traveling Raven Problem" by Ian Watson. Fantasy.
• At Nature: "Time Heals All Wounds" by Grace Tang. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Cops" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Knights of the Dragon by A. J. Gallant. Fantasy.
• Until the End by Tracey Ward. Zombie Romance.

At Smashwords:

• "Parasol" by T.C. Beckett. Fantasy.
• "My Afternoon with Garbo" by Richard Upton. Fantasy.
• "Tossing and Turning" by Esther Spurrill Jones. Fairy Tale.
• "Words" by Jacob Prytherch. Horror. Weird.
• "Silhouettes Of Dust And Bone" by Michael Carter. Horror. Ghost.
• Zero Point Energy by Sarit Hashkes. Hard SF. 80k words.

Audio Fiction
• At Clarkesworld: "Found" by Alex Dally MacFarlane. Science Fiction.
     "At this last asteroid, I had not traded for any. I had found its interior spaces open and airless, blast-marked, most of its equipment broken or gone, debris—shards of metal, rock, old synth materials, blackened bits of bone—still lodged in some deep crannies. In such a small asteroid, a sudden equipment failure could be unsurvivable. I knew this."

• At Drabblecast: "Hollow as the World" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Horror. Science Fiction.
      "One of the reasons Joshua loved Lydia as much as he did was all the secret rituals they’d devised. Their shared jokes were treasured secrets, never to be shared with the other kids at high school; some days, the way Lydia could send Joshua into high titters with a raise of her pierced eyebrow was the only thing that kept Joshua from slitting his wrists…"


Old Time Radio

• At Boxcars711: "Tom Corbett Space Cadet - Space Station Of Danger"  Pt. 1. Science Fiction. 
• At Boxcars711: "Child's Play" - Dimension X  (06-24-51). Science Fiction.
• At OTR Plot Spot: Part Two of  "Hunter's Moon" - Piccadilly Radio. 
• At Relic Radio: "Charlie, The Beautiful Machine" by Theater Five. Science Fiction.

Other

• Fiction at The Western Online: "The Ride to Baxterville" by John Laneri.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Heavy Weather" by V.F. Elliott.

The Free Fiction Days of August

A ton of free e-books and a couple of very good audio stories round out today's free fiction.  And I'll be back long before you can read all these.













Audio Fiction
• At PodCastle: "Excision" by Scott H. Andrews. Fantasy.
     "We started immediately.  Scolast Giazla had a series of rabbits she’d infected by treating their grafts with offal.  I selected the most advanced sample, a brown spotted one with a cat’s striped forepaw, to perform the control."

• At SFFaudio: "The Dreams In The Witch House" by H. P. Lovecraft. Horror.
      "Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meagre iron bed."

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Bitten by Anna Wolfe. Fantasy.
• Desert Angels by George P. Saunders. Science Fiction.
• Kissing Zombies by Richard Denney. YA Zombie Romance.
• Destination Alpha Four by Dominic Green. YA Science Fiction.

At [via Freebook Sifter]

• Bare Innocence (Forbidden Sacrifice Saga) by Chloe Ashton. Paranormal.
• Called to Belong (Legoria Series) by AM Winters. YA Fantasy.
• Darkness In Between by Rebecca R. Cohen. Vampire Fiction.
• The Zoey Chronicles: The Complete Collection (Vol. 1-4) by Sophia Gray. Vampire Fiction.
• 13 Days - Part One (13 Days in Lochterra Trilogy) by Rose Tyler Parker. Fantasy.
• Pestilence - A Medical Thriller (The Plague Trilogy) by Victor Methos.
• The Island of the Dead by George Left. Contemporary Fantasy.
• Nameless - The Fires Night (Nameless Saga) by Simone Lari. Superhero.
• Mirrors and Magic (The Clockwork Republics) by Katina French. Steampunk.
• The Castleton Files (Will Castleton) by David Bain. Paranormal.
• Gray Lake: A Novel of Crime and Supernatural Horror by David Bain. Horror.
• Until the End (Quarantined) by Tracey Ward. Horror, Undead.
• Komori: Book One of the Utopia Trilogy by Sierra July.
• Three of a Kind: Tales of Luck, Chance & Misfortune by Kristen Middleton, LR Potter, and C.J. Pinard. Dark Fantasy. 

At Amazon Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn. Telepathy. [via Pixel-of-Ink]

It Starts

A few very good free fiction links to begin the day. More to come






Art from Black Gate.





Fiction
• At Black Gate: "The Serpent of Thep" by Vaughn Heppner. Fantasy.
     "Whistles trilled. A drum beat and chains clanked. In the terrible gloom rose three hundred naked oar-slaves: five men to a bench, a four-foot plank covered by sheepskin. None had left the hold for over three weary months, ever since the old hulk had been pried from the crocodile-filled lagoon. The stench was vile, each rower forced to urinate and defecate where he sat."

• At Planet Magazine: "The Final Request" by Sheri Rosen. Science Fiction.
     "'Good afternoon, Mr. Whitaker, Charlie,' said the waitress, nodding her head at the old man and young man sitting across from each other in the red booth. 'What will you boys be ordering today?'"

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Zombie Widows" by Natalie Graham.
• At Every Day Fiction: "Captain Quasar and the Pestiferous Pirates of Narvana 6" by Milo James Fowler. Science Fiction.
• At Quantum Muse: "Welcome" by Harris Tobias.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Scapegoat" by Ian Hill. Science Fiction.
• At Toasted Cake: "Last Man Standing" by Anatoly Belilovsky. Audio. Zombies.

Audio
• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 1 - Out of Time's Abyss. Adventure.
     "Out of Time’s Abyss is a science fiction novel, the third of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Caspak” trilogy. In this conclusion, the mysteries of the lost world’s unique biological systems are revealed." - LibriVox.

• At Crime City Central: :"The Case of the Killer Coroner" by Keven McQueen.

Free Fiction Part Two - E-Books and More

Tons of Free ebooks for your reading pleasure. There's also the latest part of Theodore Savage at HiLobrow, and two good audio fiction stories.



[[Art from "War-Bringer" in the E-book section]








Fiction
• At HiLobrow: "Theodore Savage - Part 22" by Cicely Hamilton. Science Fiction. 1922.
     "The goal of his first journey was the town lying lower down the river, the forbidden city which had once bred pestilence and flies. He approached it deviously, keeping to the hills and avoiding districts he knew to be inhabited; hoping against hope, that, in spite of report, he might find some rebuilding of a civic existence and human life as he had known it…"

Audio Fiction
• At Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: "Milk Bottles" by Maria Leech. Horror. Streaming.
     "This is the story of a shopkeeper who sees the same woman rush into her store several nights in a row, always grabbing a bottle of milk and then running out into the night. After several nights of this bizarre behavior, he and a few friends decide to follow her, to find that she is returning – to a graveyard."

• At SFFaudio: "Exhibit Piece" by Philip K. Dick. Science Fiction.
     "The protagonist is a future historian of the 20th century and finds himself shifting in time from the future to that time period. At first it is unclear whether he is merely a man from the past imagining a future life, or vice versa." Wikipedia.

E-Books
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

•  Mesh: The Pioneers by David Ciccarell. Science Fiction. 
•  Cargo Lock 5 by N.R. Burnette. Science Fiction. Thriller.
•  Darker Things (The Lockman Chronicles #1) by Rob Cornell. Vampires. 
•  Exit Reality - A Ray Garret/Lifeline Techno Thriller by Robert S. Wilson, Science Fiction

At Free eBooks Daily:

• The Wizard's Magic Kingdom by Jake Adler. Fantasy.
• Shooting Stars by H. D. Gordon. Free eBooks Daily.
• Soul Gazer : Perfect Dawn by James Edwards. YA Romantic Fantasy.
• The Missing Corner by Shmaya David. Children's Fantasy.
• The Kingdom Of Knon by Tricia Martin. Children's Fantasy.
• The Salvagers by John Michael Godier. Space Opera. 
• The Martian Shuffle by Ivan Borodin. Science Fiction.
• The Year of the Great Seventh by Teresa Orts. YA Adventure.
• Ghost Drum by Susan Price, Fantasy.

At Smashwords:

• "Oak Do Hate" by Kevin L. O'Brien. Paranormal.
• "War-Bringer" by J.S. Morin. Fantasy.
• The Western Woods by Peter Black. Fantasy. 51k words.
• "Coxlilia" by Michael R. Adams. Fairy Tale.
• "Mountain Dead" by Jason Sizemore. Horror. Zombies.
• "Twelve Cuts From The Nib (Short Story Collection)" by Stephen Craig. Horror.
• "Palar" by Jerry Hart, Jr. Science Fiction.
• "Cold Pride" by The Numbered Entity Project. Science Fiction.
• "Planet X91 the new home" by Mark Stewart. Science Fiction.
• "The Harvest of Area 51" by Elijah Stephens. Science Fiction.
• Suicide & Serendipity (Volume One) by Toph Eligh Grey. Science Fiction. 157k words.
• "Imperiata and Other Stories" by Trevelyan Cooper. Fantasy.

At Barnes & Noble: [Nook]

• "Alabaster Emissaries" by Sylvan Scott. Fantasy.
• "Standown" by Samie Sands. Zombies.
• "Supernatural Sleuth, Case File #1" by Angela Wallace. Paranormal.

It's Your Free Fiction Wake-Up Call

A few free goodies to start the weekend. [Art from "Doorway to the Future" in comics below]







Flash Fiction
• At Every Day Fiction: "Everything is Going To Be All Right" by Faisal Pakkali. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Eve" by Sean A Murphy. Science Fiction.
• At Flash Fiction Online August 2013: [via SF Signal]

• "Rumpelstiltskin in Love" by K.C. Norton. Fantasy.
• "Fifty-Year-Old Face" by Kurt Newton Surreal.
• "Beyond Long Radio" by Andy Dudak. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Every Photo Tells: "A Pirate’s Life For Me" by Katharina Bordet. YA Adventure.
     "Being a pirate captain isn’t always all it’s cut out to be"

• At Dunesteef: "The Calling" by Rish Outfield. Horror.
      "Joshua McGinty grew up in an unusual family. The family has a religious calling, but it’s one that Joshua desperately wants to escape. And he thought he had, until suddenly, his twin sister January showed up to bring it all back again…"

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Doorway to the Future" 1954. Sci-fi.
• At Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "Airboy" 1952. Sci-fi. UFO. Aliens,

E-Books
• At Amazon:  The Girls From Alcyone by Cary Caffrey. Science Fiction. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
•At Barnes & Noble:  What's for Dinner? by Robert L. Arend. Zombies.[Nook]
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

• Siege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1) by Michael G. Thomas. Science Fiction.
• Nighthawks at the Mission (Off-World Blues Series) by Forbes West and Chris McGuire. Futuristic Fantasy.
• Get Off My L@wn by Perry Kivolowitz. Zombies.
• Petrina: A 2070 Novel by Edward M. Grant. Science Fiction.
• Memories of Space and Magic by Paul Comstock. Fantasy. Science Fiction.

At Free eBooks Daily:

• Witchwood Estate - Books 1 & 2 by Patti Roberts. YA Paranormal
• Urban Necromancer by Phil Chard. Horror.
• Aetna Adrift: Part 1 by Erik Wecks. Science Fiction.
• The Bank of the River by Michael Richan. Horror.
• The Soul Garden by Cege Smith. SciFi Dystopian.
• Spree by Jonathan DeCoteau. YA Paranormal.
• Cage of Gears (The Books of Meticulation) by Mark Reagan. Fantasy. Vampires.

Other Genres

• Audio at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: "Won't You Come Out Tonight?" by Josh Pachter
• Fiction at Online Pulps: "Death With Pictures" by John L. Benton (1949),  "The Call From Stateroom 37" by Philip M. Fisher, Jr. (1920),  "The Lottery Racketeer" by Nels Leroy Jorgensen. (1948). 
• Fiction at WMG Publishing: "Spinning" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Mystery.

Morning Missive from the Ministry of Free Fiction

No doublethink needed here comrades. We have some doubleplusgood stories for you, including a fantasy story (in both audio and text form) by genre legend Ursula K. Le Guin.  There are quite few other worthy entries today, so sit back, drink your victory coffee, and read or listen as you like comrades.  Today's two Two Minutes Hate has been canceled due to sabatage by Eurasian SF Signalian Eastasian spies. Be sure to visit are free fiction allies blogs at SF Signal, Free SF Reader, Free Speculative Fiction Online, BestScienceFictionStories.com, Variety SF, and  SFFaudio

 [Art for "The Issahar Artifacts" in audio fiction]




Fiction
• The Colored Lens: "Once More, onto the Beach" by S. R. Algernon.
     "She gravitated toward the sound, certain it led to safety. As she swam, the undulating glow revealed a shape ahead of her– a bulbous yet streamlined form with trunk-like legs swept backward and pressed against its blubbery underbelly. She recoiled, feeling a rush of water flow through her gills and letting a few bubbles escape from the blowhole at the top of her head. The sight of the beast triggered a rush of hunger and adrenaline."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Diamond Doubles" by Eric Brown. Science Fiction.
      "The disappearance of the noted science fiction editor Dan Woolover around the 10th October, 1966 was a cause of great mystery, as were the other disappearances in the area of Tubb Street, Brooklyn, around the same time. However, letters discovered recently at Mr. Woolover's office might shed light on the affair."

• At L5R: "Gates of Chaos, Part 1" by Seth Mason. Fantasy
     "Shinjo Tselu stood in the middle of the Ivory Court, his helm tucked under his arm. The Ivory Champion realized he was probably beginning some manner of new tradition – he had not been seen in public without his armor since the riots began. It was likely that from then on, when there was serious conflict in the Colonies, the Ivory Champion – whomever it happened to be – would follow suit."

• At Lightspeed: "This Villain You Must Create" by Carlie St. George. Science Fiction.
        "Granite killed Mr. Malevolence on a Tuesday. In his defense, Mr. Malevolence was trying to destroy the entire world at the time. Defeating him was nothing new for Granite, either—they were archenemies and had been for almost twenty years now. Saving the world was a very old dance, a box step that Granite could do backwards and blindfolded."

• At Lightspeed: "The Stars Below" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Fantasy.
         "The wooden house and outbuildings caught fire fast, blazed up, burned down, but the dome, built of lathe and plaster above a drum of brick, would not burn. What they did at last was heap up the wreckage of the telescopes, the instruments, the books and charts and drawings, in the middle of the floor under the dome, pour oil on the heap, and set fire to that. The flames spread to the wooden beams of the big telescope frame and to the clockwork mechanisms."

Flash Fiction

• At AE: "Off-Campus Housing" by Holly Schofield . Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "When one door closes…" by Desmond Hussey. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Free E-Books Daily:

• Raventide by T.A. Miles. Fantasy.  
• Only Love Survives by Renee Charles. Zombies Romance.
• Felix and the Frontier by Chester Burton Brown. Science Fiction.
• Transcender: First-timer by Vicky Savage. Science Fiction / Fantasy.
• Foreign Identity by Becca J. Campbell.  Science Fiction, Romance.
• The Survivors by Angela White.  Romantic Apocalyptic Horror.
• Recruits by Kevin George. Fantasy. 
• The Black Goats by Pam Uphoff. Fantasy. 
• The Catalyst by Chris Reher. Space Opera.
• The Tide of Destiny by Shanna Murchison. Fantasy Romance. 
• The Scottish Selkie by Cornelia Amiri. Fantasy Romance.

Audio Fiction
• At 19 Nocturne: "The Issahar Artifacts" by J.F. Bone. Science Fiction.
     "Lincoln said it eons ago.... It took a speck of one-celled plant life on a world parsecs away to prove it for all the galaxy."

• At Clarkesworld: "The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm" by Daryl Gregory.
     "The 22nd Invasion of Trovenia began with a streak of scarlet against a gray sky fast as the flick of a paintbrush. The red blur zipped across the length of the island, moving west to east, and shot out to sea. The sonic boom a moment later scattered the birds that wheeled above the fish processing plant and sent them squealing and plummeting"

• At LibriVox: Andersen's Fairy Tales (Version 2)  by Hans Christian Andersen. Children's Fantasy.
      "A small collection of some of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales -- including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Red Shoes, The Naughty Boy and fifteen others."

• At Lightspeed: "The Stars Below" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Fantasy.
         "The wooden house and outbuildings caught fire fast, blazed up, burned down, but the dome, built of lathe and plaster above a drum of brick, would not burn. What they did at last was heap up the wreckage of the telescopes, the instruments, the books and charts and drawings, in the middle of the floor under the dome, pour oil on the heap, and set fire to that. The flames spread to the wooden beams of the big telescope frame and to the clockwork mechanisms."

Other Genres

• Audio at Protecting Project Pulp: "River Round-Up" by W. Ryerson Johnson. Western.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Always Together" by Gary Sprague.

The Free Fiction Maneuver

There's some great free fiction this morning, including an audio reading of the SF classic "The Cold Equations," new fiction at Lightspeed, e-books, and much more.  And be sure to check out SF Signal for more free fiction posts by my honorable peer, Sir Regan Wolfrom.







Fiction
•  At The Colored Lens: "Primordial" by Jamie Killen. Speculative Fiction.
     "For a moment, he feared that Magda would stand up and slap him. After a few seconds of staring at him in icy rage, she looked away and bit a thumbnail. “Don’t know where people get these stupid ideas, like I’m a witch or something."

•  At Daily Science Fiction: "Tell Them of the Sky" by A. T. Greenblatt. Magic Realism.
        "She is too small, Kitkun thinks, the first time she enters his tiny workshop tucked between the market's stalls. Too young to have left the nest alone. Yet, despite the years of waiting, he still feels a prick of hope as she steps out of the city's unrelenting smog and over the threshold, thinking, perhaps she will be the one. Perhaps she will ask."

•  At Lightspeed: "Cancer" by Ryan North. Science Fiction.
      "Not everyone got tested at birth, and Tina hadn’t. Not getting tested had been her parents’ choice, but in university it had become her choice. She and Helen were hanging out in Helen’s dorm room, alone, lying side by side on her bed. It was the only comfortable place in the room."

•  At Lightspeed: "Ushakiran" by Laura Friis. Fantasy.
      "The earliest movements she knows are not her mother’s movements but the sea rocking her mother, who lies unconscious on the ship’s deck, rescued. In that way, the sea can be said to be her mother. She is born under the morning star, and so is named Ushakiran. The surgeon delivers her into a world of storms and blood, of darkness and creaking wood, of a blanket wrapped close around her, cold arms that cannot hold her."

•  At The Night Land: "Lute" by Don Webb. Dark Fantasy.  [via SF Signal]
     "The People gave me an ugly human name Lute. I am very ugly, for I am the product of twelve generations of breeding made to pass for human. I have their hateful symmetry. I have been surgically altered to have only two eyes, and unlike the People I cannot see what is behind me. When I was newly harvested, the other young ones took great pleasure in sneaking up on me. My Teacher Alvan would punish them and tell them that I was the one who would be the Trojan Horse."

•  At Weird Fiction Review: "Wunderkindergarten" by Marc Laidlaw.
     "I used to start talking right after an injection, when everyone else was sitting around addled and drowsily sipping warm milk from cartons and the aides were unfolding our luxurious padded mats for nap-time. The words would start pouring out of me in a froth, quite beyond my control, as significant to me as they were meaningless to the others"

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "The Dark" by Yancy Caruthers. Surreal.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Inferiority Complex" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Free eBooks:

• The Exile's Violin by R.S. Hunter. Fantasy.
• Mortality by Kellie Sheridan. YA Zombies. 
• The 13th by Shadow Stephens. Fantasy.

At Smashwords:

• "Stumped: A Tale of Taloria" Samuel J. Plum. Fantasy.
• "Carpe Diem" by Michael Loring. Fantasy.
• "Divine Blood: Smoke over Grimsvotn" by Luke Green. Urban Fantasy.
• "Divine Blood: Serious Matter" by Luke Green. Urban Fantasy.
• "Divine Blood: High School Hel" by Luke Green.Urban Fantasy.
• "Return to Bryn Mairwyn" by Daniel Huber. Fantasy.
• "The Horror From The Blizzard" by Morris Kenyon. Horror.
• "The Svinnvif" by David Hunter. Fantasy. Horror.
• "The World Was Too Small" by E.S. Wesley. Horror. Weird.

Audio Fiction
•  At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "No Moving Parts" by Murray F. Yaco. Science Fiction.
      "Hansen was sitting at the control board in the single building on Communications Relay Station 43.4SC, when the emergency light flashed on for the first time in two hundred years. With textbook-recommended swiftness, he located the position of the ship sending the call, identified the ship and the name of its captain, and made contact."

•  At Drabblecast: "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin. Science Fiction.
      "There was nothing to indicate the fact but the white hand of the tiny gauge on the board before him. The control room was empty but for himself; there was no sound other than the murmur of the drives — but the white hand had moved"

•  At Lightspeed: "Cancer" by Ryan North. Science Fiction.
      "Not everyone got tested at birth, and Tina hadn’t. Not getting tested had been her parents’ choice, but in university it had become her choice. She and Helen were hanging out in Helen’s dorm room, alone, lying side by side on her bed. It was the only comfortable place in the room."

Other Genres

•  Audio at Protecting Project Pulp: "The Hand of the Mandarin Quong" by Sax Rohmer. Noir.

Free Fiction, Will Robinson! Free Fiction!

It's Friday, so let the weekend begin! It's another great collection of free fiction from many generous site! It's only polite to thank Regan Wolfrom and SF Signal, from whom I swiped a couple of links. It's Monty Python's Flying Circus! OK, not really on the last one.




[Art from "Know When to Hold 'Em," linked below]







Fiction
 • At Buzzy Mag: "We’re All Super Here" by Michaele Jordan.
       "Esther opened the drawer; an old newspaper had been stuffed in on top, showing a headline which read Oldster Gang Trashes SS Office. Next to the headline, someone—probably Mom, judging by the handwriting—had scrawled, Beats Sunset Acres. Esther chuckled; Mom had never gone ten minutes without complaining about the assisted living facility where she resided. Then Esther remembered, again, and stopped chuckling."

 • At Nautilus:  "Know When to Hold 'Em" by K.G. Jewell. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
      "Huddled in the tiny attendant hut, Jonas checked, for the third time, the knob on the ancient space heater. It was still set on max. Usually the booth swung between hot and cold as the heater cycled on and off, but this evening the sub-zero winds of a Lake Huron cold front invaded Detroit, and the tiny glowing heating element fought a non-stop, losing battle."

• At The Red Penny Papers: "God on High or the Devil Below" by Jeffrey Wooten. [via SF Signal]
     “They’re trying to kill me.” Carl raised the head of his bed to get a better look at his new roommate. “You’ll see. They steal too, especially that big bastard.”

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "I'll Leave The Light On" by Patricia Russo. 
• At Enchanted Conversations: "Ignorant Fools" by Aliza Faber. Poem.
• At Every Day Fiction: "Does Best in Ordinary Garden Soil" by Sarah Crysl Akhtar. Fairy Tale.
• At Flashes in the Dark: "The Floor that Creaked" by Adam Sear. Horror.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Diversity Of Life" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Free E-Books Daily.

• City of Blaze by H.O. Charles. Fantasy Romance.  
• Keeper of Reign by Emma Right. YA Fantasy. 

At Smashwords:

• The Torans of Andor 'Out of Time' by Linda Arditto. Fantasy. 112k words.
• "King of Rats" by Gregory Carrico. Paranormal.
• "Rez Diamond: Creation" by Geltab. Fantasy.
• "ApocalypZe - Those Left Behind: Dan Killmeyer's Story" by Ivan Turner. Horror. Zombies.
• Hardin's War by A.S. Morrison. Science Fiction. Apocalyptic. 51k words.
• "The Compound" by Christina J Adams. YA.
• "Interrogation" by J. Steven Butler. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• The Classic Tales Podcast: "Through the Looking Glass, Part 2 of 5" by Lewis Carroll. Children's Fantasy.
     "Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Looking-Glass Insects, a Walrus and a Carpenter and more."

• At Escape Pod: "Growing Up Human" by Laura Hobbs. Science Fiction. 
     Jonathan was ready.  "Consider the sociological components.  One:  Juxtaposed verbiage of ‘Wake up and go to sleep.’  Two:  A slap of dominance and subservience, which defined the human condition.  And three:  Highly skilled competents feigning incompetence as part of their profession.”  Jonathan turned his back to the screen.

• At Pseudopod: "The End-Of-The-World Pool" by Scott M. Roberts. Horror.
     "The pool was as warm as sweat. Evan kicked away from the surface, algae shifting and bumping against his bare legs. Even with his mouth squeezed tight, he could taste the foulness of the water, like it had seeped through his ears to touch the back of his throat."

• At Tales to Terrify: "Episode No. 76"  "Dolls" by Drake Vaughn and "Creepdoll" by Gareth Stack. Horror.
     "a lonely bachelor takes a desperate step to finding romance by posing as a single father through the purchase of a hyper-realistic child doll he names Lucy. To his amazement, the scheme works, and he finds himself in a wonderful relationship with a spicy single mother. But what will happen when Lucy doesn’t age like a real child, or anyone discovers that she prefers being plugged into an outlet than munching cheerios?" - Tangent.

Gaming
• At DriveThruRPG: Pathways #27. (free membership required)
     "How can you say "No" to a free collection of Pathfinder templates, NPCs, Feng Shui feats, Apeiron Staffs, and a free preview of 101 Not So Random Encounters Winter? If you say no designer Steven D. Russell and artist Keith Seymour will send a Watchmen Silver Dragon after you! "

Old Time Radio

• At Boxcars711: "Lonely Sleep" - Inner Sanctum Mysteries. Horror. 1949.
• At Boxcars711: "Tunnel Under the World" by X Minus One. Science Fiction. 1956.
• At Relic Radio: "The Man Who Came Back" - Dark Fantasy. Horror. 1941.
• At Relic Radio: "Alien Presences" by CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Science Fiction. 1978.

Other Genres

• Audio at Every Photo Tells: "Never Alone"  by Odin1Eye.
• Audio at Radio Drama Revival: "Episode 336 – This Time, It’s An Open Season" Mystery.

Some Free Fiction This Way Comes

So much good stuff today!  There's a two great new stories at Tor.com, and a great new story at Baen. Two serials reach there conclusions - "The Comet" by (A co-founder of the NAACP) and  "A Matter of Knives" by Ed Greenwood (The creator of Forgotten Realms).  Nightmare Magazine and StarShipSofa have their latest stories up - both sites always awesome. A new issue of Planetary is posted and there are great e-books, flash fiction, and comics!

A hearty hat tip to two cool Canadian bloggers, Jesse Willis of SFFaudio from which I found a cool audio fiction site The Moon Lens to link to now and in the future, and Regan Wolfrom of SF Signal which I swiped an e-book link from today.

Today's art is for Star Soldiers a classic by SF/Fantasy legend Andre Norton! Get it while it is still free.


Fiction
• At Baen: "Haunts of Guilty Minds" by John Lambshead. Science Fiction.
      "He held the gun in two hands at a low chest height using the fast “double tap” pistol technique developed by the SOE, Churchill’s Special Operations Executive. Urban encounters with the SS proved speed and firepower more useful than target-shooting accuracy. Holographic targets flicked in and out around him as he moved through the battle range, an exercise area rigged out like an office suite. The targets weren’t exactly human but he didn’t really look at them. This was a free-fire exercise where everything that moved was hostile."

• At HiLobrow: "The Comet - part 5" by W.E.B. Du Bois. Science Fiction. (1920)
      "He did not glimpse the glory in her eyes, but stood looking outward toward the sea and sending rocket after rocket into the unanswering darkness. Dark-purple clouds lay banked and billowed in the west. Behind them and all around, the heavens glowed in dim, weird radiance that suffused the darkening world and made almost a minor music."

• At HiLobrow: "The Clockwork Man - part 14" by E.V. Odle. Science Fiction. (1923)
     “I’m afraid I put you to great inconvenience,” murmured the visitor, still yawning and rolling about on the couch. “The fact is, I ought to be able to produce things — but that part of me seems to have gone wrong again. I did make a start — but it was only a flash in the pan. So sorry if I’m a nuisance.”

• At Nightmare Magazine: "The God of the Razor"  by Joe R. Landsdale. Horror.
     "Richards arrived at the house about eight. The moon was full and it was a very bright night, in spite of occasional cloud cover; bright enough that he could get a good look at the place. It was just as the owner had described it. Run down. Old. And very ugly. The style was sort of Gothic, sort of plantation, sort of cracker box. Like maybe the architect had been unable to decide on a game plan, or had been drunkenly in love with impossible angles."

• At Paizo: "A Matter of Knives - Chapter Three: An End to All Skulking Games" by Ed Greenwood. Fantasy.
      "From her hiding place behind a stack of shipping crates, Tantaerra leaned forward, trying to get as close to the conversation as possible without being seen. Bendrar was Loryn Garldrake's son, and the woman giving orders had to be Semdeira Sarpent."

• At Tor.com: "The Stranger" by Anna Banks.
      "The Syrena don’t trust many humans. Rachel is one of them. The story of how Galen met her—and how they bonded—is both exciting and heartbreaking."

• At Tor.com: "Burning Girls" by Veronica Schanoes. Dark Fantasy.
      "about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by Cossacks, she must deal with a demon plaguing her family."

• Now Posted: Planetary #28. Science Fiction.

"Krax Delivered" by Joel Zaptman.
     "She fought for freedom!"
"Incident on Titus Thirteen" by J Eckert Lytle
     "He went fishing and caught aliens" 
"Dragon Sword" by Jerry Johns
     "Was he using the dragons...or were they using him?"

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "City of Chrysanthemum" by Ken Liu.  
• At Every Day Fiction: "The Game" by Tiffany John. Science Fiction.
• At The Moon Lens: "Shadwell Stair" by Wilfred Owen. Audio Horror. Poem.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Dis’ Country" by James Zahardis. Science Fiction.

E-Books
• At Amazon: Province Five (The Golden String) by Al Vickers. Science Fiction. [Via SF Signal]
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Demon Trap by P.S. Power. Fantasy.
• Triangle: False Mirror by D. G. Speirs. 
• Shadow of the Sun by Merrie P. Wycoff. Paranormal Historical Fiction.
• The Cage by Jason Brannon. Horror.
• A Gateway Made Of Bone by Iain Grant. Fantasy.
• Machines of Easy Virtue by Jack Price. Mystery/Sci-Fi.
• Wanted by Jason Halstead. Science Fiction.
• Star Soldiers by Andre Norton. Science Fiction. 
• Dead and Moaning in Las Vegas by Brandon Meyers. Zombies.
• Wake Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen. Horror.

At Smashwords:

• "Two Percent Power" by Brian Manning, Fantasy.
• "Luck Of The Claw" by Matthew Gill. Adventure.
• Tail of the Dragon by Timothy Reihm. Fantasy. 98k words.
• "How (Not) to Play with Magic" by Elizabeth A Reeves. Paranormal.
• "The Sickening King (The Grid 2)" by Amy Cross. Fantasy.
• "Old Shock" by David Senior. Horror.
• "Corpse Garden" by Ana Patrick. Horror.
• "Shred - Cuts of Flesh" by Jacob Prytherch. Horror.
• City of Whispers by Katherine Sorin. Horror. Vampires. 67k words.
• JON-29 by Gary Mark Lee. Science Fiction. 63k words.
• "Europa" by Gene Denham. Sciencr Fiction.
• "Shelter" by George Page III. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At The Moon Lens: "The Man Who Went Too Far" by EF Benson. Horror.
      "The little village of St. Faith's nestles in a hollow of wooded till up on the north bank of the river Fawn in the country of Hampshire, huddling close round its grey Norman church as if for spiritual protection against the fays and fairies, the trolls and "little people," who might be supposed still to linger in the vast empty spaces of the New Forest, and to come after dusk and do their doubtful businesses."

• At StarShipSofa: "Philosophy of Ships" by Caroline M. Yoachim. Science Fiction.
     "The philosophy of ships being the question : if a ship has its planking replaced plank by plank over a period of years, when does it become a new ship? Yoachim applies this to humanity – once we have ultimate control of the biological self, and can engage and share/merge with others in virtual space, what is it that is the essence of humanity."

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "First Man in History Who Could Not Die"  Science Fiction. (1951)
• At Atomic Kommie Comics:"Plaything" Science Fiction. (1953)
• At Diversions of the Groovy Kind:"The Rubber Ball Project" Adventure. (1976).
• At Four-Color Shadows: "A Little Pain Never Hurt Anybody" Horror. (1953)
• At Four-Color Shadows: "Attila the Hun" Adventure. (1952)
• At The Horrors of It All: "Greatest Horror of Them All! / The Fanged Freak" Horror. (1975/1954)
• At The Horrors of It All: "The Head of the Family!" Horror. (1954)
• At Pappy's Golden Age Blogzine: "Tomorrow's War" Science Fiction. (1952)

More Good Online Freebies

Another batch of free fiction as we brave the distant, uncharted waters of the internet to bring you the best free, legal fiction that can be found.




[art from "Food for Greece" in comics below]




Fiction
• At Buzzy Mag: "Corentin the Divine" by Eric M. Bosarge.
      "Q: So, how did you first discover magic?
A: That’s an interesting way to put it. I suppose the first time was on television, one of Criss Angel’s made-for-television extravaganzas with fireworks and beautiful women."

Magazine Collections
     These are scans of the entire issue of these classic pulps, but are very low resolution and are therefore somewhat difficult to read. [The text versions have too many errors to be of any use] Still they are of some interest to SF history fans.
• At The Internet Archive: Astounding Stories - 1930
• At The Internet Archive: Astounding Stories - 1931

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Before Dark by Jonathan Lake. Fantasy.
• Dancing with Eternity by John Patrick Lowrie. Science Fiction.
• Bad Juju by Dina Rae. Horror. Paranormal.
• Troll Or Derby by Red Tash. Fantasy.
• Nolander by Becca Mills. Fantasy.
• Forgotten Fox by Lena Horn. Fantasy.
• The False Prince by James Fuller. Fantasy.
• Reflections by Susan Griscom. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal.
• Who is Audrey Wickersham? by Sara Shrieves. YA Zombies.

At Smashwords:

• "Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers" by Gord Rollo. Fantasy. 5K
• "When Dragons Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Dragons" by Stephen D. Sullivan. Fantasy. 6k.
• "Mr. Bear" by Midu Hadi. Fantasy. 3k.
• "Fast Down" by James Field. Horror. 4k.
• "The Body (First World Horrors)" by Marcus Caine. Horror. 8k.
• "Reverse" by Robert Waggoner. Science Fiction. 1k.
• "Moron's Guide to Surviving the Space Race" by Travis Holley. 40k.
• "Border Patrol" by Shane Griffin. 4k.

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Amoeba Men of Saturn" Sci-Fi . (1944)
• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Radium Raiders from Earth's Core"  Sci-Fi. (1941).
• At Heroines: "Food for Greece" Fantasy. Myth. War. (1944).

Other Genres

• E-Book Free eBooks Daily: Nemesis by L.J. Martin. Western
• Fiction at Ploughshares: "The Culling" by Jasmine Sawers. Literary.
• Fiction at Ploughshares: "Come the Revolution" by Emma Torzs. Literary.
• Fiction at Ploughshares: "Grace" a story by Joshua Howes. Literary.