When There's Lightning, You Know It Always Makes Me want to Read Free Fiction

Free E-books, chapter three of "The Fencing Master" at Paizo, and the latest episode of StarShipSofa = life is good.  Be sure to pick up Regan Wolfrom's After The Fires Went Out: Coyote, which can be downloaded free from Story Cartel in exchange for a review. Back tomorrow. [Art from "The Fencing Master"]













Fiction
• At Paizo: "The Fencing Master - Chapter Three: The Second Duel" by Dave Gross. Pathfinder. Fantasy.
     "'I won't let you take Blackjack,' snapped Vencarlo. Once more he danced away, trying to draw his blade. Once more I danced after him, thrusting my arm through the crook of his elbow to prevent him from reaching the blade."

Audio Fiction
• At StarShipSofa: "And Then Some" by Matthew Hughes, read by Barry J. Northern. Science Fiction.
      "Carrying his valise, he disembarked along with the crewmen, but when the little knot of spacers turned left out of the spaceport gate, heading for the huddle of taverns and bump-houses that catered to transients whose needs were pressing but whose standards were low, he turned right and climbed the rise into the town of Upper Pulluch."

Special Offer
• After The Fires Went Out: Coyote by Regan Wolfrom. Post-Apocalyptic.
      "Baptiste, stranded 500 miles from his wife and daughter, at the northern edge of civilization, has made a vow to protect a teenage girl from the chaos that surrounds them. But as food and fuel runs out, and even friends prove they can't be trusted, Baptiste realizes that this promise won't be easy to keep."

E-Books
At Free E-Books Daily:

• The Ring by James Sperl.  Science Fiction Thriller.
• The Inner Circle by Carmen Caine. YA Urban Fantasy Romance
• Universe: The Edge of Tomorrow by R. M. Dilleen. Science Fiction.
• I Bring the Fire Part I : Wolves by C. Gockel. Fantasy.
• Murder Most Magic by Audrey Mackaman. Fantasy. Mystery.
• Essie's House by Robert Meyerson. Horror.
• Souvenir by Daniel Kelley. Fantasy. Horror.
• Firestone by Damien J. Nash. YA Fantasy.
• Island Tango by Anisa Claire West. Romantic Fantasy.
• Reckless Rescue by Rinelle Grey. Space Opera.

At Amazon: [via freebook sifter]

• Sunset Rising by S.M. McEachern. Dystopia.
• Escaping Darkness (The Stone Legacy Series) by Theresa McClinton. Paranormal.
• Dark Luminance (Frameway Multiverse) by E.M. McDowell. Science Fiction.
• This Plague of Days Season One (The Zombie Apocalypse Serial) by Robert Chazz Chute.
• Annwyn's Blood (The Paladin of Shadow Chronicles) by Michael Eging. Fantasy.
• Sir Eloise by Kaitlin Campos. Fantasy.
• The Mosquito Syndrome by James Sperl. Horror.
• The Death Fairy by Laird Stevens. Paranormal.

Searching the World for Free Fiction

Yes, it's even more great free fiction!  There a ton of free e-books at Amazon and Smashwords, and there's the start of a new serial at Pathfinder.   There's an interesting newish Romanian horror magazine that has some stories in English [found via Ty Schwamberger's website.]  And there's two good gaming ezines at RPG now (which unfortunately requires a free registration and downloads lead to e-mail ads)














Fiction
• At Pathfinder: "The Fencing Master - Chapter One: The First Duel" by Dave Gross. Fantasy. RPG.
     "Within the crowd stood a circle of eight swordsmen, all but one pressing kerchiefs to fresh wounds. The uninjured man appeared three decades older than the others, a swatch of gray at either brow. The fencing master was of a height with me, placing him a few inches above the younger men. Unlike his curious pupils, he did not turn at my arrival. His gaze was locked upon the duelists inside the ring."

At Revista de Suspans: [Horror, Thriller, Dark Fantasy]

• "The Archangel " by Paul Tudor.
     "The assumption of double suicide was ruled out after the policemen didn’t find any knife into the railcar or the luggage. And to think that – after stabbing his/her partner and then thrusted the dagger into his/her heart – the perpetrator (he?she?) had the power to throw the white weapon into the bushes (with what purpose?) would be – we have to admit – a far-fetched supposition."

• "One Brew Too Many" by Ty Schwamberger.
     "Luckily, the car was old and didn’t have any airbags. If the car would have been equipped with them, Linda was sure with the pounding jolt she had now taken both times now, it would have been hard enough that they would have activated and probably blown up so big and fast, it would have crushed her tiny face."

• "To Virgin Mary, With Love" by Răzvan Țuculescu. 
      "The hill, like a fur cap plaited from the tendons of a giant, murmured in protest through the whispered thrill of the wind towards the one who plagued him with the burden of the hollow trees, ever so bent from the passage of time to its own soil."

• "Chester" by Benjamin Kane Ethridge.
     "These days he slept under the elders sleep place, his big brown eyes gluing over. Fogginess meant that the world was pulling away; all important things had past already, the great days of strutting down the street gone."

• At Tor.com: "Business As Usual" by David Barnett.
     "Spring, 1890, and England needs a hero. Gideon Smith is yet to step up to the role as public protector of the Empire, but in the background and the shadows, Mr Walsingham pulls strings to keep the often outlandish threats to Britain and her interests at bay. It is a role that lies heavy on his shoulders, and here we find him composing his end-of-year report to Queen Victoria."

E-Books
• At Amazon: "Born" by Tara Brown. Dystopian. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Smashwords:

• "Soul Mates" by L. A. Kelley. Fantasy.
• "The Lonely Professor's Guide to Myths and Legends" by L. A. Kelley. 
• Five Shades of Fantasy. Fantasy. 313k words.
• "Into the Strange" by Mike Ramon. Horror.
• The Blizzard by Craig Melville.  66k words.
• "Ashes on Our Altar" by Eric Henn. Apocalyptic.
• "In Search of the God Particle" by William J. Benning Hard Science Fiction.
• "The Formidians" by William J. Benning. Space Opera.
• "Kudos" by R. Curtis Venture. Science Fiction.

At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

• Rabacoon by S.L. Jean. Fantasy.
• Auld Bobby Bob's Campfire Tales For Kiddywinks by Michael H Kelly. Fantasy.
• Through the Eye of the Gelan (The Realm of the Gelan Chronicles) by Ros Bethan. YA Fantasy.
• Isle of Ghosts (The Sadronium Wars) by Kristian Anderson. Post-Apocalyptic.
• The 747ers by Sam Roman.
• The Demon's Tale by Jonathan W. Steed. Fantasy.
• Healing the Hunter by K.C. Taylor. Paranormal Romance.
• The Plague Within by Gioya McRae.  Apocalyptic.
• Beyond the Firefly Field (The Last Elfarian) by R.E. Munzing. Fantasy (YA?)
• The Starlight Fortress by Fiona Rawsontile. Space Opera.
• Dark Black: A Fiction-TecnoThriller by Zack Vegas.
• Legends: The Golden Door Revised Edition by Bobbie Bridgeman.
• For the Blood of the Lamb (The Night Talker Chronicles 1) by David Cassenti. Paranormal.
• The First Alpha by K A Taylor. Paranormal.
• Carlotta and the Krius Scepter (Carlotta Series) by John Booth. Paranormal.
• Fated (New Era Series) by Addy Mason. Fantasy.
• Black Diamond by Kinch Glisson. Fantasy.
• The Destiny Engine by E.C. Belikov. Cyberpunk.
• Malarat - a novel of love beyond death by Jessica Rydill. Fantasy.
• Diary of the Displaced - Book 1 - The Journal of James Halldon by Glynn James.
• Resurrection of Liberty by Michael L. Wentz. YA Science Fiction.
• Bait (Order of the Spirit Realm) by K.C. Blake. Paranormal.
• Remnant by Kate Genet.
• The Last Priestess by Elizabeth Baxter. Fantasy.
• Soul Finding (Halfling Souls Series) by C Crowe. Fantasy.
• The Arcturus Man by John Strauchs. Science Fiction.
• Virtues of Destiny: A Voice Next Door by Sean Harris. Science Fiction. 
• Paw by George Crawford. Fantasy.

Role Playing
At DriveThruRPG:

Now Posted: Star Frontiersman #21
     Very well made Star Frontiers fanzine featuring encounters, adventures, background, and even fiction.  For Star Frontiers, but much is adaptable to other science fiction RPGs.

Now Posted: Pathways #30.
   Fantasy RPG 'zine focusing on Pathfinder.

• "Many Angled Creature Template" by Steven D. Russell 
• "Erivar Harmelk" by Creighton Broadhurst
• "Additional Racial Traits: Jotunnar" by Steven D. Russell
• "Longbridge at a Glance" by Creighton Broadhurst
• "Technology in Tabletop Games" by Liz Winters.

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.

Celebrating the Birth . . . Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod (born 2 August 1954)
     Multiple Hugo award nominee, Ken MacLeod has written several successful Space Opera and Hard SF stories.  Fortunately some of his short stories are available in free audio and/or text forms.  Give them a read or listen and, if you like them, consider buying some of his non-free work.










Fiction
• At Tor.com: "Earth Hour"
     "The assassin slung the bag concealing his weapon over his shoulder and walked down the steps to the rickety wooden jetty. He waited as the Sydney Harbour ferry puttered into Neutral Bay, cast on and then cast off at the likewise tiny quay on the opposite bank, and crossed the hundred or so meters to Kurraba Point. He boarded, waved a hand gloved in artificial skin across the fare-taker, and settled on a bench near the prow, with the weapon in its blue nylon zipped bag balanced across his knees."

• At Subterranean Press: "A Tulip for Lucretius"
      "I was deep in a Californian orgy when the summons came, like the voice of conscience. In fact: the voice of Father Declan, and not meant for me. But I had not been idle in the two years of the Malacandra‘s passage, nor in the even more dragging months of its inching across the Martian surface like one of the old, brave little rovers. I had the ship’s comms thoroughly tapped."

• At StarShipSofa: "Jesus Christ, Reanimator" in StarShipSofa Stories Vol. 1
     "When I caught up with him, under the grubby off-season awnings of a Tiberias lakefront cafe, Jesus was philosophical about it."

• Via Free Speculative Fiction Online: "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?"  Direct Link PDF
      "Here’s a fast-paced, freewheeling, frenetic romp that demonstrates that if life hands you lemons, make lemonade—no matter who gets in your way or what extremes you have to go to get them out of it. "

Audio Fiction

• At Escape Pod: "Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359?"
• At StarShipSofa: "Jesus Christ Reanimator"
• At StarShipSofa: "Lightling Out"
• At StarShipSofa: "iThink" Flash Fiction. Audio.

“To Err is Human, Free Fiction is Divine.”

There's even more great, free speculative fiction than usual today.  Be sure to check out those that sound interesting, and save everything that you can.



[Art from "Creatures of the Abyss" by Murray Leinster in audio fiction below]






Fiction
• At AE: "Put Out Every One" by Rich Larson.
      "The petrol leaks, dripping small craters into cool sand. The smell burns up inside Elliot’s nose. There’s a half-man lying at his feet, blurry in the dark. He is breathing hard. He is staring upward. There’s no starlight, but the sand glistens radioactive and Beasley provides some light where he stands beside Elliot, his skin glowing like a tribal god."

• At Buzzy Mag: "A Meek And Thankful Heart" by Jeff Somers.
     "The other customers of the Morgue knew him and regarded him as a weirdo. They didn’t notice anything different about him aside from the fact that he was taking up valuable bar space he usually had the good sense to abandon."

• At The Colored Lens: "No More Horizons – Part 2" by Adam C. Richardson.
      "'I’ll tell you why.' She rolled over to glare at me. 'You wouldn’t tell me because you’re a reporter, because you have to be the first one on the scene, so you can get the scoop on everyone else. Your journalist’s instinct is one thing, but you could at least mention it to your wife.'"

• At HiLobrow: "The Comet - part 4" by W.E.B. Du Bois. Science Fiction. (1920).
      "She stopped. She was alone. Alone! Alone on the streets — alone in the city — perhaps alone in the world! There crept in upon her the sense of deception — of creeping hands behind her back — of silent, moving things she could not see, — of voices hushed in fearsome conspiracy."

• At Lightspeed: "Mono No Aware"  by Ken Liu. Science Fiction.
     "The world is shaped like the kanji for umbrella, only written so poorly, like my handwriting, that all the parts are out of proportion."

• At Lightspeed: "The Huntsman" by Megan Arkenberg. Fantasy.
      "It’s the best bargain you’ll get in this town,” the faery woman says. She’s standing by a cracked kitchen sink with mold between the tiles, rinsing diced tomatoes and crooked green jalapeño rings. “A heart for a heart. And my heart’s more than what she’s used to, I’ll tell you that. You couldn’t find better if you went door-to-door from every house in the tithe-projects.”

• At Tor.com: "A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill" by Elizabeth Knox.
     "Tom Teal and Albert Barnes are government employees tasked with visiting a hard-to-reach house and convincing its inhabitant, a member of the Zarene family that controls the whole valley, that a large dam project is a good idea. But the Zarenes have their own way of doing things, and they don’t take kindly to outsiders…."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Note to Self" by Hans Hergot.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• The Rainbow Z by Zaria Garrison. Science Fiction.
• Change by Melissa Stevens. Fantasy.
• The Rush by Rachel Higginson. YA Paranormal.
• Dissever by Colee Firman. Paranormal.
• Dust to Dust: Fangs For Your Memories by Eden Crowne. Paranormal Romance.
• Dark County by Kit Tinsley. Horror.
• Becoming Sarah by Miranda Simon. Coming of Age Fantasy.
• Justice by Rhiannon Paille. YA Fantasy.
• The Journey of Secrets by J Robberts. Fantasy.
• Dimensional Shift: Waters of Babylon by Michelle Stone. Science Fiction/
• The Ghost of Josiah Grimshaw by Suzy Turner. YA Paranormal.
• Into Uncharted Seas by E. C. Williams. Science Fiction. 
• Faelorehn by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson. YA Paranormal Romance.
• Promise by Kristie Cook. Paranormal Romance.
• The Immortal American by L.B. Joramo. Historical Fantasy.
• Atazia by John Petts. YA Fantasy.
• The Vampires Of Livix Twin Pack by J Gordon Smith. Vampire Romance.
• Paranormal Legacy by Caitlin Hensley. YA Fantasy.
• Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller. SciFi Romance.
• Clandestine by Nicole Rae. YA Paranormal.

At Smashwords:

• "Blood Shadow: Book of Manuel" by Phil Wohl. Contemporary Fantasy.
• "Risky Enchantment" by Oona Roberts. Urban Fantasy.
• "Curse of Witch and War" by Matt Larkin. Epic Fantasy.
• "The Last Zoo" by Sara Zaske. Fantasy.
• "A Clone Of His Own" by Rik Hunik. Fantasy.
• "Feline Savior" by Kevin L. O'Brien. Paranormal.
• "Sky" by N. E. White. Fantasy.
• "Into the Weird: Nine Tales and then Four More" by Harry Kane. Weird.
• "The Final Flight of the Phaseship Lelantos" by Cory Mccoy. Space Opera.
• "The Hyacinth Rescue" by Rudolph Kohn, Jr. Science Fiction.
• "Wired For War" by J.D. Gallagher. Science Fiction. 66k words.
• "Ripples" by John Mc Caffrey. Horror. Ghost.
• "The Man Who Unzipped His Face" by Gareth Pryce. Horror.
• "Libertines: A Horror Story" by Grant Palmquist. Horror. Occult.
• "The Housefull Fear Room : The Journey" by Ridhwanul Haque. Weird.
• "The Boy Who Melted" by Travis McBee. Horror.
• "Heather" by Siobhan Harper. Horror.

Audio Fiction
• 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "Survival Tactics" by Al Sevcik. Science Fiction.
      "The robots were built to serve Man; to do his work, see to his comforts, make smooth his way. Then the robots figured out an additional service—putting Man out of his misery."  - from Amazing Science Fiction Stories October 1958

• At LibriVox: Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster.
      "'The things that listen', whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings of thousands of maddened fish trapped in a coffin-like area of ocean?"

• At LibriVox:: Treasure Island (dramatic reading)  by Robert Louis Stevenson. Adventure.
      "When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams what adventures will follow in the man's wake. Soon, the once-peaceful inn is threatened by pirates, Jim's father is laid in his grave, and Jim finds himself in possession of a map showing the location of treasure buried by the legendary and notorious Captain Flint" 

• At Lightspeed: "The Huntsman" by Megan Arkenberg. Fantasy.
      Described Above

• At Protecting Project Pulp: "The Problem of Cell 13" by Jacques Futrelle
     "'Let’s suppose a case,” he said, after a moment. “Take a cell where prisoners under sentence of death are confined—men who are desperate and, maddened by fear, would take any chance to escape—suppose you were locked in such a cell. Could you escape?'
     'Certainly,' declared The Thinking Machine".- first published in 1905.

Old Time Radio

• At Plot Spot: "The Other Man" - 2000 Plus, "The Signal-Man" - Columbia Workshop, "The Potters of Firsk" by Jack Vance - Dimension X, "The Moon Moth" by Jack Vance - Seeing Ear Theatre.
• At Relic Radio: "The Robot Killer" on 2000 Plus.

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Death on the Earth-Mars Run!" Sci-Fi. (1952)
• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Mission into Time" Sci-Fi. (1952)
• At The Horrors of It All: "Burn, Miser, Burn / Money Hungry" Horror. (1953/1971)
• At Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "My City Is No More!" Sci-Fi. A-Bomb. (1947)

Other Genres

• Audio at Author's Site: "The Second Bat Guano War Chapters 1-5" by J. M. Porup. [via Scott Sigler]
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Waitress’s Tattoo" by Daniel Schoonmaker.

Comics and More Fun Freebies

A ton of online horror and sci-fi comic book stories as well as a few other cool items.


[Art from "Flash Gordon and the Space Pirates" in comics below]




Fiction
• At Paizo: "The Irregulars - Chapter Four: Out with a Bang" by Neal F. Litherland. Fantasy.
     "They moved silent as breath through the empty tunnels, tucking charges into crevices and butting them against wooden support beams. The devil's scent of saltpeter made the caverns smell like Hell, ready to burn with a single, ragged spark. Fairy lights danced in the deeper darkness where the Lieutenant and Trilaina licked wicks and set fuses, making certain everything was perfect."

• At Tor.Com: "The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.
     "People send their dreams and wishes floating down the Mae Ping River with the hope that those dreams will be captured, read and come true. It is a surprise what some wish for and why. One can never know what’s inside someone’s heart—what they really truly want, and those dreams sometimes reveal our true selves."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "What Merfolk Must Know" by Kat Otis.
• At Nature: "The Epistolary History" by Alex Shvartsman, Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Frontier Justice" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 15 - The Beasts of Tarzan" Adventure.
      "Chapter XV – 'Down the Ugambi' - Jane Clayton, fleeing Rokoff, is making her way back to the Ugambi River. Hot on her trail is Rokoff. Tarzan is following Rokoff."

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Prison Planet" Sci-Fi (1952)
• At Atomic Kommie Comics: Space Patrol "Stranded on the Sands of Mars" Sci-Fi. (1940)
• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Planet Which Had Everything--Almost!" Sci-Fi. (1968).
• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "City of Primitive Man" Sci-Fi. (1952).
• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Flash Gordon and the Space Pirates" Part ONE, TWO, and THREE
• At Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "Eye for Eye, Fang for Fang" Horror. (1977).
• At Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "The Sentry" Horror. (1975).
• At The Horrors of It All: "The Wolf Howls For You / Curse of the Kolukoffs" Horror. (1972/1973)
• At The Horrors of It All: "Dimension IV" Horror. (1953)
• At The Horrors of It All: "Creatures of the Bomb!" Horror. (1953)
• At The Horrors of It All: "Terror on TV!"  Horror.
• At Pappy's Golden Age: "Day of Reckoning!/Fanged and Fiendish" Sci-Fi. Horror. (195x) 
• At Pappy's Golden Age: "War Gods of the Deep" (1965)
• At Pappy's Golden Age: "The Lost World" Sci-Fi.  (1941)
• At Seduction of the Innocent: "World that Was" Sci-Fi. (1955)

Other Genres

• Fiction at The New Yorker: "Mexican Manifesto" by Roberto Bolaño.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "For Two" by Paige Zubel.

Morning Freebies

Good morning! A few great freebies - more to come!

(Art for "No Breather in the World But Thee" in fiction and audio fiction)





Fiction
• At Nightmare Magazine: "No Breather in the World But Thee" by Jeff VanderMeer. Horror.
     "The cook didn’t like that the eyes of the dead fish shifted to stare at him as he cut their heads off. The cook’s assistant, who was also his lover, didn’t like that he woke to find just a sack of bloody bones on the bed beside him. 'It’s starting again,' he gasped, just moments before a huge, black, birdlike creature carried him off, screaming."

Ebooks
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Blood Harvest by Michael Weinberger. Fantasy.
• Cat's Paw by L.A. Taylor. Fantasy, Mystery.
• Vampire Takeover by Jez Strider. Vampire Dystopia.
• Black Diamond by Jennifer Loiske. YA Fantasy.
• Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis. YA Science Fiction.
• Limbo's Child by Jonah Hewitt. YA Fantasy.
• All the Paths of Shadow by Frank Tuttle. Fantasy.
• Firecracker by Charles R. Verhey. Science Fiction Fantasy. 
• Love of Shadows by Zoe Brooks. Fantasy.
• Baby by J.K. Accinni. Science Fiction.
• NorthWest by JH Glaze. SciFi Horror.
• Telepaths and Traitors by K.J. Blaine. Science Fiction Space Opera.

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Man and the River" by Therese Pieczynski. 
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Police Interrogation" by Townsend Wright. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Nightmare Magazine: "No Breather in the World But Thee" by Jeff VanderMeer. Horror.
      Described above.

• At PodCastle: "Virtue’s Ghosts" by Amanda M. Olson. Fantasy.
      "For two weeks after she moved into our house, no one could convince me that Aunt Victoria was not a ghost. With soundless steps, she drifted from room to room in a dress the same blue-gray color as the pendant around her neck'

• At StarShipSofa: "The Golden Age of Story" by Robert Reed.
     "Each vignette is a separate episode outlining the spread of a designer drug, the effects of which include elevated reasoning and memory, high creativity, and pathological confabulation." - Primary Sources.


Other Genres

• Audio at CrimeWAV: "Mahogany & Monogamy" by Jed Ayres.
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Real Mom" by Von Rupert

Four eZines, The Black Star Passes, and More.

More great free eZines today as well as a few more single stories. There are a few big-name writers as well as several promising newcomers. And for fans of classic SF, libriVox has a free audiobook of "The Black Star Passes" by John Wood Campbell Jr.. I'm still catching up, so it will probably be at least a week before some categories make more than a token appearance.

Today's illustration is from the serial linked below, "The Seventh Execution" by Amber E. Scott.








Now Posted: Flurb #12

• "Fjaerland" by Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo.
• "The Onset of a Paranormal Romance" by Bruce Sterling.
• "The Curse of the Were-Penis" by Emily C. Skaftun.
• "Everything Is Broken" by John Shirley.
• "Pulped And Bound Monsters" by Adam Callaway
• "The Oyster and Alice O." by Anna Tambour.
• "The Robert Armstrong Syndicated Newspaper Strip" by A. S. Salinas.
• "Gertrude and Ludwig Spin A Web" by Justin Patrick Moore.
• "I Can’t Escape From You" by Brendan Byrne.
• "Xuanito" by Ernest Hogan.
• "Big Ripples Without a Splash" by Don Webb.
• "Concerning Tavia" by Martin Hayes.
• "Walls Between Worlds" by Will Ellwood.
• "After the Thaw" by Eileen Gunn.

Now Posted The Fifth Dimension Ed. 13, #3 Sept. 2011

• "God Felt Regret" by D.N. Calkins.
• "Ghost in Rock" by Ross Gresham.
• "A Return to Paradise" by Tony Peak.
• "Cold Comfort" by Jennifer Rachel Baumer.

Now Posted: New Myths #16. Speculative Fiction.

• "At the Center of the World" by Kenneth Mark Hoover.
• "Bread Crumbs and Thigh Bones" by Amy Sundberg.
• "Out of Frozen Shadow" by Sylvia Hiven.
• "Expiration Date" by Yeoryios Pantazis.

Now Posted: Electric Spec V. 6, #3 August 31, 2011. Speculative Fiction.

• "Monkey Talk" by T. Lucas Earle.
• "Justice Like a Mighty River" by Alter S. Reiss.
• "The Coincidence Factory" by Fredrick Obermeyer.
• "Tooth and Claw" by Rina Gonzales.
• "Stranded (with Porkchop)" by Rich Matrunick.

@Wiley Writers: "The Fortress of Solicitude" by Laura Givens. Superhero.

"Extra! Extra! Sex-crazed girls killing local lads in the streets of Newark! Read all about it! It’s 1938 and Kong the Avenger is out to solve the most bizarre case of his short career as a mystery man. He may need a little help from his friends."

@Ray Gun Revival: "Galactic Wonders" by Matthew Wuertz. Science Fiction.

"The unpretentious headquarters of Galactic Wonders is a suite of rooms in a one-story building in Naperville, just outside of Chicago. I think the space was designed for a dentist or doctor because there’s a lobby just inside the front door with a sliding glass window on the far wall."

@Aoife's Kiss: "The Suicide Inspector" by J. J. Steinfeld. Science Fiction.

"Though I wasn't a Rebel or a Weasel from the Underground, I once despaired totally of having a sensible place in society. My hopelessness was so thorough that thoughts of death occupied me night and day. My current work now bathes all my previous dark thoughts in the deepest irony. Just a year ago I wished to extinguish myself. I was simultaneously drifting and dangling, questioning the wisdom of the State, a breath away from curses and irrevocable acts."

Serial Fiction
@Paizo: "The Seventh Execution -Chapter Two: The Faithful False" by Amber E. Scott. Fantasy.

"We retreated into a network of side streets where we could escape if necessary and where we'd easily hear anyone approaching. The night was cool enough to frost our breath. The smell of refuse lingered beneath the familiar city smells of dirt, sweat, horse dung, and boiled potatoes."

@LibriVox: "The Black Star Passes" by John Wood Campbell Jr., read by "KirksVoice"

"A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention… First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets… The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System."

@Wiley Writers: "The Fortress of Solicitude" by Laura Givens. Superhero. [See above]

Wednesday Freebies

Another day of cool free fiction, audio fiction, and comics. Once again, time is not my friend and some good stuff will have to wait until tomorrow, such as most of the comics. Still, there is some great stuff today for reading and listening to. Thanks to SF Signal for letting me know that Beware the Hairy Mango had resumed posting flash audio. So from the land of infinite typos, I "bit" you adieu until tomorrow - likely later in the day.







@Ray Gun Revival: "What the Bullet Sang" by Michael Ehart.

The last cave-in took out Harmon and half our team. Terrell was hit then, but the wound that was killing her came as the Morph was carrying her out. Spalls ran across the Morph’s back, a dotted line broken by where it had held Terrell in a fireman’s carry.

@ChiZine Volume 47, Week 11 is now posted.
"All the Pretty Boys" by Michael Rowe.

"Vulnerable, Dale thought. He smiled. New to the city? Maybe a hustler, or maybe just thinking about it. The kid’s jeans and boots were mall-cheap, and even from a distance Dale’s expert eye detected that the jacket was vinyl."

"Bombay and Mercy Chase the Long Hand" by Daniel A. Rabuzzi.

“He was nine feet tall if he was an inch,” said the sailor sitting in the office of Matchett & Frew, wholesale merchants in the City of London. “Body lean as a needle, with legs like a stork, and his nose . . . well, sirs, I could hardly credit it myself, but his nose was as long as my arm and had three nostrils.”

"Consent" by Nancy Baker.

"The planes come in, running ahead of a freak desert electrical storm. Radios crackle with pleas and threats. From the exhaust trails, the subtle, sweet tang of blood and vengeance drifts down to touch the tarmac."

"Just Like the Ones He Used to Know" by Robert J. Wiersema.

"He remembered the snow falling more than once as they had gone out to find a tree. He remembered driving the logging roads up in the hills around the lake, crammed into the cab of his father’s pick-up truck"

"Lizards" by Brent Hayward.

"This same lady brought two monsters into the world already, one of them boneless kinds that’s kid’s play to put down and another one that came out with teeth and claws and a bad attitude that hadn’t been so easy to send back to the depths these things crawl from. Put an officer in the hospital."

"Military Secrets of the Zionist Enemy" by Lavie Tidhar.

"They say he was still alive when they caught him. They say they did experiments on him. Radiation. All sorts of . . . well. Chemical, biological stuff. They had Iraqi scientists working on him."

"Radio Nowhere" by Douglas Smith.

"She stepped out of the studio and snaked an arm around Liam’s waist, pulling him into a hug. They stood there holding each other for a moment. Breaking it off, she slapped him on the bum and headed towards the door, squeezing past the crammed shelves of vinyl and CD’s. 'Let us rock.'"

"Scenes from the Skoobie Revolution" by Claude Lalumière.

"A nun got on the bus and sat in the empty two-seater facing Correy and Norman. The two white boys had been holding hands, whispering pervy jokes, and giggling, but they instinctively let go of each other as soon as they caught sight of her. "

"The Tale of the Princess and Her Hero" by Robert Boyczuk.

"At the sound the Princess went rigid; her eyes snapped open. Blackness shrouded her. She might as well have been blind. Beneath her cheek the stone flags of her cell were cold and reeked of ancient piss. She lifted her head, grit and the threads of soiled straw clinging to her jaw, and strained to listen. "

Serial Audio
@ScottSigler.com: Tuesday Terror Episode #08 "Perry Dawsey, Are You Okay?" Part 1 of 2. by OJ OgreOregon, performed by Arioch Morningstar. Horror.

"This story is written parallel to Scott [Sigler's] novel Infected" . . . [In it] "alien parasites rain down upon humanity, frequently causing violent psychotic episodes in those whom they contaminate. Perry Dawsey is one of those afflicted by the parasites."

@Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: "Hanuman’s Gift part two" written and narrated by Helen E. H. Madden. Steampunk.

"After hearing Agent Harrison Thorne’s impossible tale of cursed monkeys and undead women Whitby must file away the physical evidence. However it just may be that Hanuman’s Gift was not totally left behind in India, and the Archives are not as boring and safe as he believes."

Flash Audio
@Beware the Hairy Mango: Episode 80 "A Hell of a Licking" by Matthew Sanborn Smith. [weird fiction]

@Atomic Kommie Comics: "The Face on Mars" from Race for the Moon (195?). Sci-Fi.
In a rather cool coincidence(?) a 1950s SF comic book published a story about a face on Mars, roughly two decades before some overzealous and less than rational individuals thrust another silly conspiracy theory upon the world. Maybe they were subconsciously inspired by having read this earlier in there lives. You be the judge.


@Pappy's Golden Age Blogzine: Two stories from Black Knight #3 (1955), "The Crusader" and an unnamed one. Historical / Fantasy.

Elric "The Black Petals" Pt 2 of 3, Tons of Flash Fiction, and More

A ton of flash fiction today, part two of the three-part Elric story at StarShipSofa. I don't have too many details about that but Moorcock + Elric + StarShipSofa = awesome! And three longer tales for your enjoyment. I have been having trouble with my internet all morning so I might have missed something - in which case it will be added either tonight or tomorrow.








@Ray Gun Revival: "On A Crooked Planet" by Dan Larnerd. Science Fiction.

"Hanging in orbit was the UES Pierre Cruzatte; a long range survey ship that resembled a submarine more than the starships from twentieth century television. It had no windows and no graceful curves; just thick titanium bulkheads, blinking sensor arrays and a monstrous interstellar drive."

@Yesteryear Fiction: "The Dragon King" By Robert William Shmigelsky. Fantasy.

"The high wind, tossing and turning over top of a vast kingdom of castles, mansions, towers, halls and arks, flew towards a tall, distant blue tower, which spiraled up into the night sky to the top of the veiled heavens beyond like a whirlwind pulled up from the ocean and frozen into place."

Classic Fiction
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Feet Of Clay by Phillip Hoskins. Science Fiction.

"Life is pretty strange when a god who is good and benevolent must prove that he has"

@StarShipSofa: Episode #192 featuring The Black Petals Pt 2 of 3 by Michael Moorcock, read by Peter Cavell.













@Daily Science Fiction: "Remember" by Will Arthur.
@Daily Science Fiction: "V is for Vámonos" by Tim Pratt, Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekhout
@Every Day Fiction: "Sunstance Q" by Michael Madden. Horror.
@Every Day Fiction: "Lessons Never Learned" by Christopher Owen. Fantasy.
@Aoife's Kiss: [Poem] "Spell" Fantasy. Until July 2011?
@Quantum Muse: "The Crimson Wind" by James Gardner.
@Eschatology: "Time, and Tide" by Stephen Ramey. Horror.
@Eschatology: "For All of Humanity" by Brian M. Sammons. Horror.
@365 tomorrows: Science Fiction.

• "Going Steady" by Jae Miles.
• "A Good Day’s Work" by T.C. Powell.
• "Auteur" by Jake Christie.
• "Wedding Day" by Harris Tobias.
• "Out of Time" by Jae Miles.

@Flashes in the Dark: Horror.

• "Vengence is Mine" By Lori Titus.
• "The Endless Sleep" By Paul D. Brazill.
• "Generation Gap" By James Kunkle
• "Sure Bet" by Acquanetta M. Sproule.

@The Fifth Dimension: [Poetry] Fantasy and SF.

• Comparative Religion by Bruce Boston
• Nocturne by J.S. Watts
• The World Over by Shelly Bryant
• The End by Raymond HV Gallucci
• Forbidden Love by Kellee Kranendonk

@Weirdyear: Weird Fiction.

• "The Plot To Save Heidi Falls; Lie Or Die" By John C. Weil.
• "And Now You Know Why" By Acquanetta M. Sproule.
• "Traffic Stop with Annie Kim" By Jerry Guarino.
• "Money is Gross" By Michael Shine.
• "Love is Cruel" By Joe Mynhardt.

@Yesteryear Fiction: Fantasy.

• "Whisp" By Dr. Benjm. ‘TeaPot’ Freeman – Museologist.
• "Fourth Trial Of A Dragon Knight" By Robert William Shmigelsky.
• "Third Trial of a Dragon Knight" By Robert William Shmigelsky.
• "Second Trial of a Dragon Knight" by Robert William Shmigelsky.

@The New Flesh: Horror.

• "Jim Parades a Toy" by Josh Myers.
• "Bathroom Kiss" by Len Kuntz.
• "Last Ride" by Georges Dodds.

@Apex Magazine: [poetry]

• “Black, Red, White” by Rachel Swirsky
• “The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos” by Elizabeth McClellan

Free Moorcock Audio, E-Zines and Other Fantasy, SF, and Horror Fiction

A e-ton of free fiction today with three complete magazines, as well as several new individual stories and flash fiction stories. And there are several classic genre stories as well. Indeed, there is so much free text fiction that the audio fiction has necessarily been delayed until later today. Happy reading - there is definitely some good stuff.

Today's illustration is from Michael Moorcock's Black Petals in the Audio section.







Free Magazines

Electric Spec Volume 6, Issue 2 is posted with fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Macabre).

"Invasive Species" by Ryan Kinkor
"Norse didn't know what he was closer to these days: a soldier or a garbage man. All he ever did was clean-up duty, picking up the refuse of one cocked-up incident after another. "
"Frazee" by Patricia Russo
"Frazee's sister had been abducted on her way home from school when she was ten years old. He barely remembered her, the way she had been in life; he'd been only two, a late baby, an afterthought."
"Remodel with Swan Parts" by Michael Griffin
"The thing Tod feared about his wife returning home was the unveiling. Always that ritual, like a game show host whipping away the drop cloth to reveal a prize."
The Turtle Wore Mascara by E. Bundy
"Greg was basking in her giddy adoration when pain electrified his arm. His left hand jerked reflexively upwards with an eighteen-pound snapping turtle clamped onto his little finger"
"Inside the Walls of East Lombard Street" by Anthony J. Rapino
"The shiny cashier saw me. She looked right at me. The store's fluorescent lights reflected off her skin like tiny searchlights. Her green eyes, the security cameras."
and "Race to Redemption" by Betsy Dornbusch
"Lord Oman sat at his desk, hands resting flat on it. For all Kaelin knew, the lord had a pistol in his lap. His back prickled. He kept his MK 23 within easy reach."

And nonfiction an Interview with Robert J. Sawyer, and more.

Nightblade: Horror and Fantasy Magazine issue #16 Propaganda is posted. This issue's fiction

"Ghost Story" by Deedra Cooper
"'Would you like me to tell you a story?' Something besides sadness now. Hope? Gratitude?"
"The Elder Gods of Richmond Street" by Dan Davis.
"We walked towards the front steps of the porch. I didn’t like the way they moved — as if they were expecting us."
"Striped Pajamas" by Marge Simon.
"The clothes you wear are perm-press, the only other item in your bag is the pair of striped pajamas that belonged to your father."
"Jackalope Season" by M.B. Ryther
"The jackalope is one of the most ferocious creatures out there. My ancestors in the Scottish Highlands had to fend them off with swords and burn them out of their dens with fire."

Mirror Dance Summer 2011 Issue is posted with fiction by Sara Cleto, Nicole Votta, David Brookes, Melinda Giordano, and Dora Badger and poetry by Sylvia Adams, A. J. Huffman, Aubrey Nesbitt, and Robert Shmigelsky

Mirror Dance is a quarterly magazine of fantasy stories, art, and poetry.




Single Stories
@Ray Gun Revival: "The Wheat from the Chaff" by Kurt Heinrich Hyatt. Science Fiction.

"The scout shuttle broke through the smog to reveal a drab world of grays and browns set in flat and oily seas. Just below was the monthly supply freighter sent by the Interplanetary Relief Fund surrounded by a protective swarm of other scout shuttles."

@Anotherealm: "Death Row" by Milan Smith. Speculative Fiction.

"Graduation was close, and The Future was an exciting time for them, unlike me, for who Tomorrow was still not that much different from Today"

@Linger Fiction: "Ma-Ma" by RJ Astruc. Speculative Fiction.

"Katya looks away quick before she giggles or screams or faints and stares out the window at the city of Namyanka. A thousand hi-houses–huge white mushrooms like 1960s UFOs–speckle the sky, all connected by a web of ropes, chains and makeshift metal gangplanks."

@Philippine Genre Stories: "The Jar Collector" by Charles Tan. Horror.

"On most days, a lot of people pass by, either to smoke or to lounge around as they wait for friends. But today feels different and I am all alone save for the stranger sitting beside me"

Classic SF/Horror/Fantasy
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Cold Ghost" by Chester S. Geier, from Amazing Stories (Nov. 1948). Horror.

"All Hager had to do was slow the dogsled to a walk, and his partner died. A perfect crime—no chance to get caught!"

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Invader" by Alfred Coppel, from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy (Feb. 1953). Science Fiction.

"Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided. But to make certain he must study its inhabitants—as one of them!"

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Next Time We Die" by Robert Moore Williams, from Amazing Stories (Feb. 1957). Science Fiction.

"We journey to far places, driven on by ideals. We fight for lost causes, sacrificing our lives because the things we fight for seem worthwhile. But are we right? Are they worth being killed over? Perhaps. Then again, maybe we'll know better—The Next Time We Die"

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Day of the Druid" by Knut Enferd, from Amazing Stories (Nov. 1948). Fantasy.

"Be'al, all-powerful god, drank the blood of his victims. Would Gaar be able to save Marna, whom Be'al kept in eternal sleep, and avenge her people?"

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Colonists" by Raymond F. Jones, from IF Worlds of Science Fiction (June 1954). Science Fiction.

"If historical precedent be wrong—what qualities, then, must man possess to successfully colonize new worlds? Doctor Ashby said: "There is no piece of data you cannot find, provided you can devise the proper experimental procedure for turning it up." Now—about the man and the procedure."

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Ordeal of Colonel Johns" by George H. Smith, from IF Worlds of Science Fiction (June 1954). Science Fiction.

"Colonel Johns, that famous Revolutionary War hero, had the unique—and painful—experience of meeting his great-great-great-great granddaughter. Now maybe you can't change history, but what's there to prevent a soldier from changing his mind about the gal he is going to marry?"

@Project Gutenberg: The Slayer of Souls by Robert Chambers (1920). Horror. [via Triplanetary]

"Nobody ever before had seen that sort of magic in America. People scarcely knew whether or not they quite liked it. The lightning of innovation stupefies the dull; ignorance is always suspicious of innovation—always afraid to put itself on record until its mind is made up by somebody else."

Reviewed Free Fiction
@BestScienceFictionStories.com "A Pocketful of Dharma" by Paolo Bacigalupi (1999). Reviewed with a link to the free story. Science Fiction.

"It rose into the evening darkness, a massive city core, dwarfing even Chengdu's skyscrapers. Construction workers dangled from its rising skeleton, swinging from one section of growth to the next on long rappelling belts. Others clambered unsecured, digging their fingers into the honeycomb structure, climbing the struts with careless dangerous ease."

Serial Fiction
@Legend of the Five Rings: "The Destroyer War" Part 12 by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.

"The air was thick with smoke. It burned the eyes and choked life from the lungs. Somewhere nearby, Hida Harou knew that the Palace of Crimson Shadows was burning. He wondered what manner of horrible things the Scorpion might have been hiding within it to make the smoke so acrid and stinging."

@The Author's Site: "Deluge" (Part 74) by Brian Keene. Horror.

"The fungoid man-thing lurched forward, arms outstretched. Supporting Sarah’s dead weight, Henry barely dodged Earl’s attack. Seven more of the creatures lumbered up the stairs."

@Every Day Fiction: "To Turn Back Time" by Leigh Kimmel. Fantasy.
@Every Day Fiction: "The Thing About A Haunting" by Aaron Polson. Weird.
@Flashes in the Dark: "The Most Beautiful Tree" by Jennifer Jackson. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Well Laid Schemes" by Lori Titus. Horror.
@Strange Horizons: [Poem] "Waking the Red Guardian" by WC Roberts.
@Daily Science Fiction: "U is for Ubiquitous" by Tim Pratt, Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekhout.
@Dark Valentine: "The Sound of Silence" by Alvin G. Burstein.
@365 tomorrows: "Fundamental Forces" by Patricia Stewart. Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "Remedies" by Ian Rennie. Science Fiction.@Weirdyear: "How to Punch a Seven Foot Tall Dog-Headed Alien Warrior in the Head" by David Macpherson.
@Weirdyear: "Visions of Lincoln" by Justin Short.
@Yesteryear Fiction: "A Brief History" by Caitlin Jackson. Fantasy.
@Linger Fiction: "A Lady of My Own" by Robyn Ritchie.
@Linger Fiction: "Circus Freaks" by Courtney Cullinan Robb.
@Nightblade: [poetry]

• "Reluctant House Buyer" by Kristine Ong Muslim
• "His Cream-colored, Conchordial Fracture" by WC Roberts
• "Propaganda" by Shelley Ontis
• "Their Music Shudders" by Michael Fosburg

@Antipodean SF: [via Beam Me Up]

• Birthday Boy by Greg Mellor.
  
• Patterns Of Floral by Pavelle Wesser.
  
• Out Of Time by Jason Butterfield.
  
• Dragon's Quest by Eleni Konstantine.
  
• The Interview by Shaun A. Saunders.
  
• The Bad Thing by RJ Astruc.
  
• How The Natural Revolution Began by Erol Engin.
  
• Breathe Easy by Ken McGrath.
  
• The Anti-Realist Movement by Leon Harwick.
  
• Sina by Wes Parish.
  

@StarShipSofa: Episode #190 featuring "Black Petals Pt 1" by Michael Moorcock, read by Peter Cavell. Full size version of the awesome cover here.
Really! Free Moorcock fantasy fiction! Elric! Read by StarShipSofa! Huzzahs to infinity and beyond!






@LibriVox: A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay, read by Mark Nelson.

"It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the "greatest novel of the twentieth century" and was a central influence on C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy."