Showing posts with label C. L. Moore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C. L. Moore. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

You Are About to Experience the Awe and Mystery Which Reaches from the Inner Mind to — The Free Fiction Limits.

Another collection of links to great free fiction.  There are new and classic stories with all-new audio readings, another cool eZine posted, and great text fiction.  And as the Governator once said, I'll be back with e-books and more.


 [Art from the Drabblecast reading of "The Lurking Fear"]

 


 Fiction
• At L5R: "Gates of Chaos, Part 3" by Seth Mason. Fantasy.
      "Two hundred trained Unicorn veterans stood in formation by their mounts as Akodo Dairuko walked slowly past the front line. The Champion of the Lion Clan inspected each soldier as she walked by, her eyes darting quickly and precisely to each detail on the armor, weapons, mount, and the soldier before moving on to the next."

• At Nightmare: "How Far to Englishman’s Bay" by Matthew Cheney. Horror.
     "Max had made the decision that April morning to close up the bookshop and go away for once and for all, but he hadn’t told anyone yet, and he needed somebody to take the cat, so it was a good thing Jeffrey showed up an hour before closing."

• At Planet Magazine: "Encounter at Midnight" by Irene Maschke. Science Fiction.
     "Mick stared open-mouthed into a long, green face with deep wrinkles and two spindly antennae on top. The alien was a little shorter than himself and looked rather plump in its silvery space suit."

• At Weird Fiction: "Buddha Nostril Bird" by John Kessel. Science Fiction. 1990.
      "After we killed the guard, Glaucon and I ran down the corridor away from the Well. Glaucon had been seriously aged in the fight. He limped and cursed, a piece of dying meat and he knew it. I brushed my hand along the wall looking for a door." 

• Now Posted: Cafe Irreal #47 Summer 2013. Weird. Surreal. Mostly Flash.
Flash Fiction
Audio Fiction
• At Drabblecast: "The Lurking Fear" by H.P. Lovecraft. Horror.
      "There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear. I was not alone, for foolhardiness was not then mixed with that love of the grotesque and the terrible which has made my career a series of quests for strange horrors in literature and in life. With me were two faithful and muscular men for whom I had sent when the time came; men long associated with me in my ghastly explorations because of their peculiar fitness."

• At Nightmare: "How Far to Englishman’s Bay" by Matthew Cheney. Horror.
     "Max had made the decision that April morning to close up the bookshop and go away for once and for all, but he hadn’t told anyone yet, and he needed somebody to take the cat, so it was a good thing Jeffrey showed up an hour before closing."

• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "At the Sound of the Beep" by Julie Hoverson. Horror.
      "A woman's answering-machine tells a terrible tale of persecution."

• At PodCastle: "The Tree of Life" by C.L. Moore. Weird. Fantasy.
      "Over time-ruined Illar the searching planes swooped and circled. Northwest Smith, peering up at them with a steel-pale stare from the shelter of a half-collapsed temple, thought of vultures wheeling above carrion. All day long now they had been raking these ruins for him. Presently, he knew, thirst would begin to parch his throat and hunger to gnaw at him."

Other Free Fiction Linkers
 Other Genres
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Real Charity" by Rhys Timson,
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Terrific Tuesday Treats

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comics
Other Genres
  • Audio at Project Pulp: "The Spirit of France" by S. B. H. Hurst. Pulp f=Fiction.
  • Flash at Every Day Fiction: "Margins" by D. Z. Watt.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Tuesday Frrebies

Even more good free reading than usual. There's new fiction at several great sites including the always awesome Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, etc. And there's some quite good audio fiction too!  And Don;t miss
Regan Wulfrom's Free Fiction links at SF Signal (And be sure to say hi to poor Regan )

[art for Kelly Link's "Catskin" linked below]




Fiction
• At AE: "Roadkill Joe" by Milo James Fowler. Scuience Fiction.
      "Roadkill Joe is a very old soul — Can’t die cuz he’s a freak!"

• At Author's Site: "Boz" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction.
     "Boz got his job on the colony ship The Beautiful Dreamer because he’s a competent introvert. He enjoys the fact that he’s spending years completely alone, monitoring the passengers passing the time in cold sleep. So when he wakes up one morning to Christmas carols, he gets scared. Very scared."

• At The Colored Lens: "The Wreck of the Emerald Sky – Part 2" by Sean Monaghan. Speculative Fiction.
      "He caught a loop and slipped up against the wall. It was a low thrust, perhaps five percent of a standard gee. Maneuvering thrusters."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "He Could Be Ambrose Bierce" by Shaenon Kelty Garrity.
     "On August 6, 1930," said Mona, "Justice Joseph Crater stepped into a taxi in New York City and was never seen again."

• At Interstellar Fiction: "Shuffle Town" by T. D. Edge. Science Fiction.
      "Rain lent some romance to the light blazing from the psycho-change tower above Reception but her heart trembled like a hamster away from its cage, even though she’d expected that."

• At Lightspeed: "Catskin" by Kelly Link. Fantasy.
      "Cats went in and out of the witch’s house all day long. The windows stayed open, and the doors, and there were other doors, cat-sized and private, in the walls and up in the attic. The cats were large and sleek and silent. No one knew their names, or even if they had names, except for the witch."

•  At Lightspeed: "Dreams in Dust" by D. Thomas Minton. Science Fiction.
     "The arrival of the dust-covered girl caught Keraf by surprise. The girl’s slender face, sun-beaten to a deep brown, blended seamlessly into the cloth wrapped around her head. She couldn’t have been more than seventeen, but she wielded her rifle with ease."

• At Strange Horizons: "Wing" by Amal El-Mohtar. Speculative Fiction.
       "She reads—not the book around her neck, which is small, only as long and as wide as her thumb, black cord threaded through a sewn leather spine, knotted shut."

• At Weird Fiction Review: "Selections from Lives of Notorious Cooks" by Brendan Connell.
     "and then she became pregnant and gave birth to a child, but, being frightened of her father’s reaction to such an occurrence, left it in a field where it was eaten by dogs and so Apollo became angry and sent a demon dog called Poine to Argos."

• Now Posted: Yellow Mama #35. Horror. Noir.
  • "Baby Boy" by AJ Hayes.
  • "Like a Boss" by Michelle Ann King 
  • "Santa's Crack" by Richard Godwin
  • "The Flag" by Diana Ferraro 
  • "Modraniht:A Fairy Tale" by Mike Kerins 
  • "Holly Jolly" by Christopher Grant
  • "Trimming the Tree" by Kenneth James Crist 
  • "A Little Scotch Will Help" by D. S. Jones
  • "The Naughty List" by Earl & Paul Dick 
  • "As Filthy as the Night Is Long" by Basil Rosa 
  • "Small Bites" by Chris Rhatigan 
  • "On the Interstate" by Kip Hanson 
  • "Ten Months" by Mark Hendry 
  • "Out of Juice" by Cindy Rosmus 
  • "The Night's Rainbow" by Ali Znaidi 
  • "The Hounds Within My Property" & "Lonely" by ayaz daryl nielsen 
  • "Apricots, Figs & In This Room" by Lyn Lifshin 
  • "Sandy & Winnie" by Meg Baird
  • "Facts about Bones & More than Oxygen" by Christopher Hivner 
  • "Rare Days & Teardrop" by Marc Carver.
Flash Fiction
  • At Flashes in the Dark: "Ovidia’s Metamorphosis" by Patricia Court. Horror.
  • At Strange Horizons: "End Times" by Sarah Terry. Speculative Poetry.
  • At 365 Tomorrows: "Tariff" by Jae Miles. Science Fiction.
Audio Fiction
• At Lightspeed: "Dreams in Dust" by D. Thomas Minton. Science Fiction.
      Described above.

• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "Warp'd Stories #3, Top Story, Chapter 4" by Julie Hoverson.
       "Sometimes a wing man is a bad thing. And sometimes inviting a new friend up for food just means dinner."

• At Protecting Project Pulp: “The Tree of Life” Part 2 of 2. by C. L. Moore. Science Fiction.
      "A queer, penetrating light shining upon his closed eyes roused Smith by degrees into wakefulness again. He lifted heavy lids and stared upward into the unwinking eye of Mars’ racing nearer moon. He lay there blinking dazedly for a while before enough of memory returned to rouse him. Then he sat up painfully, for every fiber of him ached, and stared round on a scene of the wildest destruction."

• At Toasted Cake: "Anything Chocolate" by Caren Gussoff.
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Other Genres
  • Audio Fiction at Bound Off: "Our Trip to the Moon" by Bob Thurber and "Driving Lesson" by Natasha Fish.
  • Audio Fiction at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine:  "A Good Man of Business" by David Ingram. Mystery.
  • Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Wasteland Gallery" by Chris Schramm. Literary.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

C.L. Moore and Other Great Free Fiction

It's a rather good day for free fiction already with seven free fiction stories, five flash fiction stories, four audio fiction stories (including part one of a classic by C.L Moore), and a partridge in a pear tree. Oops, I mean an "other genre" story from The New Yorker, guess the season is getting to me. Very likely more later with a link or two swiped from my now elderly arch-enemy Regan Wolfrom.


[Disturbing art from Lightspeed, linked below]



Fiction
• At Author's Site: "Ghosts of Christmas Present" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Horror.
      "Fog, thick and old, smelling of saltwater and decayed dreams, rolled in off the ocean. The streetlights shone yellow in the dampness. A cat hiding in the enclosed stairway leading into the bakery hissed as Michela passed."

• At The Colored Lens: "The Wreck of the Emerald Sky – Part 1" by Sean Monaghan. Speculative Fiction.
      " The painted readout on the armature above her head was all blue. She was sleeping normally. He went in and pulled the sheets up over her, staring at her face for a moment. So sweet and angelic. How had five years turned this bubbly academic elementary school achiever into a semi-suicidal wreck?"

• At Lightspeed: "Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal" by J.T. Petty. Fantasy.
     “My dad just won the lottery, nine thousand dollars. Probably be half that after taxes, but he wants me to come home and help him spend it. Shit. Take a lot more money than that to get me back East.”

• At Lightspeed: "Swanwatch" by Yoon Ha Lee. Science Fiction.
      "Officially, the five exiles on the station were the Initiates of the Fermata. Unofficially, the Concert of Worlds called them the swanwatch."

• At Night Shade Books: "Invisible Men" by Christopher Barzak.
      "She said he was an “ex-peer-i-ment-al in-vest-i-gat-or, don’t you know?”  And lucky for me, I don’t catch her looking at me much, so I rolled my eyes at myself in the glass I was cleaning, then set it up on its shelf with my eyes rolling in its surface for a long time after."

• At Strange Horizons: "America Thief (Part 2 of 2)" by Alter S. Reiss.Speculative Fiction.
      "I couldn't get into that house when it was empty, because it was never empty. If I had a month to work, something might have come up that got everyone out. Or I could have come up with a trick that'd get them out of the house. But I didn't have a month. I had two more days, maximum."

• At Weird Fiction Review: "Headstone In Your Pocket" by Paul Tremblay.
     "Two agents pin the driver against the truck’s chrome grille. He yells, claiming the hot chrome burns his skin. The agents don’t care, don’t say anything, and handcuff him. The smuggler is priority one. The cargo can wait."

Flash Fiction
Audio Fiction
• At LibriVox: "Tom Swift and His Sky Racer" by Victor Appleton. Early Speculative Fiction.
     "A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new airplane from the beginning."

• At Lightspeed: "Family Teeth (Part 5): American Jackal" by J.T. Petty. Fantasy.
      Described above

• At PodCastle: "Miniature 74: The Book" by Lavie Tidhar. Fantasy.
      "There is a bookshop on Charing Cross Road in London and it’s never open. Its windows are covered in a thick film of dust and spiders grow webbed cities in its darkness. There are books inside that no-one’s ever read; books that human eyes had never seen, books where black ink spells secrets on black paper, books written in darkness that cannot be read in the light."

• At Protecting Planet Pulp: "The Tree of Life" Part One by C. L. Moore.Science Fiction.
      "There was neither food nor water in these ancient Martian ruins, and Northwest Smith knew that it could be only a matter of time before the urgencies of his own body would drive him out to signal those wheeling Patrol ships and trade his hard-won liberty for food and drink. He crouched lower under the shadow of the temple arch and cursed the accuracy of the Patrol gunner whose flame-blast had caught his dodging ship just at the edge of Illar’s ruins."
 
Other Genres
Fiction at The New Yorker: "A Voice in the Night" by Steven Millhause.

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Robert Vardeman Serial, Good Free Fiction, and a Bad Free Movie.

Some very good stuff today. Beneath Ceaseless Skies has another great issue out as does Four Star Stories, which should be a treat. Lots of good fantasy. Some very good classic and reviewed SF, including a Northwest Smith story by C.L. Moore (one of my favorite early SF writers). And a Pathfinder fantasy serial by Robert Vardeman! starting at Paizo. Great audio, including some episodes of Mindwebs (an e1970s radio equivalent of today's best fiction podcasts), BCS audio-fiction, and the latest BtHM.

And very much not in the good category, a 1960 TV movie The Cape Canaveral Monsters. With a 2.4 IMDb rating, this is only for connoisseurs of bad films, people who feel they must watch every professional Sci-Fi film ever made, and those exceptionally deranged people who fall into both categories (I'll likely be watching it this weekend)


Image from "Clever Love" in the fiction section.







Now Posted: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #72. Fantasy.
"Sightwolf" by Erin Hoffman. Fantasy.
"In Astralar, middling flint-walled city pressed against the chill bosom of the Windsmouth Mountains, a woman will be banished for failure to pay taxes."
"The Moral Education of a Mad Bastard" by Joe L. Murr. Fantasy.
I was twelve when I, like my father before me, was sentenced to transportation to Sutterland. My crime was the theft of a leg of lamb. I stole to feed myself and, if Governor Bidwell was to be believed, because I could not do otherwise.

Now Posted: Four Star Stories Summer 2011
"Mak Siccar" by Lou Antonelli.
"It looks like it is going to be a fine morning." The Second Mate looked sideways at his companion. "I hope you enjoy this little liberty. Ten minutes, and it’s back in cuffs and down below for you."

"Clever Love" by R. L. Copple. Fantasy.
"The forest beckoned Jal'ra to return. His elvish kinsmen romped among those branches. Memories of children chasing squirrels and each other demanded he not leave. No longer sensing the familiar melody of the trees resonating in his heart didn't help either."
"Strawman at the Door" by David L. Gray.
"Mark Jacobs materialized in the dark alley, stumbled hard, then had to twist 180 degrees to break his fall with his left buttock against the side of an empty dumpster. It produced a low, metallic booming sound and a throbbing pain in his left hip."


"Fish Story" by Selina Rosen.
"'All right buddy where are you going in such a hurry,' The trooper said shining a flashlight in the guy’s window. The guy was filthy covered with mud and what might have been blood."

Reviewed Free SF
@BestScienceFictionStories.com: "The Cassandra Project" by Jack McDevitt (2010) science fiction. In text and MP3.
"It is about an ancient dome discovered on the far side of the Moon."

Classic SF/ Weird Tales
@Internet Archive: "Gunner Cade" by Cyril Judd, from the March, April, May 1952 issues of Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
"Gunner Cade, a professional soldier of the Realm of Man, is captured by rebel forces on Mars but escapes, only to find that he is being hunted by fellow gunners."
@Munseys and Gutenberg: "When the Mountain Shook" by Robert Abernathy. Science Fiction. From IF Worlds of Science Fiction March 1954.
"Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses. But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...."
@Munseys and Gutenberg: "Piper in the Woods" by Philip K Dick. Science Fiction. From Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy February 1953. Science Fiction.
"Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility—men becoming plants!"
@Munseys and Gutenberg: "A Woman's Place" by Mark Clifton. Science Fiction. From Galaxy Science Fiction May 1955.
"Home is where you hang up your spaceship—that is, if you have any Miss Kitty along!"
@Munseys and Gutenberg: "The Door into Infinity" by Edmond Hamilton. Weird. From Weird Tales August-September 1936. Weird.
"An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events."
@Munseys and Gutenberg: "The Tree of Life" by C L Moore. Science Fiction. From Weird Tales October 1936. Weird.
"A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar—a tale of Northwest Smith"
@Munseys and Gutenberg: "The Genius" by Con Pederson. Science Fiction. From IF Worlds of Science Fiction May 1954. Weird.
"Sethos was a great artist, a talented man, quite possibly the most famous man of his time and world. But, alas!—there were other worlds. And is not the grass always greener...?"
Serial Fiction
@Paizo.com: "Plow and Sword - Chapter One: Smoke on the Horizon" by Robert E. Vardeman.
"It took several minutes for the cougar's ululating screech to make Rorr look up from his autumn plowing. The day was unseasonably warm for Neth, and sweat trickled down his back. He knew the heat was an illusion—cutting through the dried brown chaff remaining in his field and plowing it under for spring fertilizer had to be completed soon, before snow buried the land."











@Internet Archive: Eleven episodes of the classic "semi-dramatized" radio series Mindwebs. Science Fiction.
"Many of the readings were enhanced by music, periodic sound cues, and the occasional character voice, however they are not completely dramatized. In a way Mind Webs stories are a cross between radio drama and audio books."

@Beware the Hairy Mango: Episode 81 "They Call Me Johnny Eggroll" by Matthew Sanborn Smith. Weird Fiction. [via SF Signal]


@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "The Nine-Tailed Cat" by Michael J. DeLuca
"The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails."






@Internet Archive: The Cape Canaveral Monsters. 1960 TV Movie. Streaming and for download. Sci-Fi.
"When a couple are killed in an auto accident their bodies are immediately inhabited by extraterrestrial beings. Taking refuge in an underground cave, the aliens attempt to sabotage the U.S. space program."
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Saturday Free Fiction and More

It's Saturday and there are some very cool free items today. Time for some space R&R.





Fiction
At Subterranean Press: "The Crawling Sky" by Joe R. Lansdale.
"Wood Tick wasn’t so much a town as it was a wide rip in the forest. The Reverend Jebidiah Mercer rode in on an ebony horse on a coolish autumn day beneath an overcast sky of humped up, slow-blowing, gun-metal-gray clouds; they seemed to crawl."

Online HERE.


At Daily Science Fiction: "Shark's Teeth" by T. A. Pratt.
"Marla Mason, sorcerer in exile, looked over the railing of the balcony, down at the lavish resort hotel's pool with its swim-up bar and tanned, happy people lounging on chairs, and thought, I can't take another day of this."

Online HERE.



Aphelion reached an impressive milestone with its 150th issue. This issue featured fiction by Frederick Rustam, Tristan Kloss, B. A. Hartman, Rob Hunter, Martin A. Ramos, Jeffrey Sorensen, Richard Tornello, David Garlock, Sergei Servianov, David Alan Jones, E. A. Moore, and Jeff Williams with Elizabeth Markham. All these, along with poetry, features, and more are HERE.






@Dark Valentine Magazine: "Bait" by Alexander Douglas.

@Wolfsbane Publishing: "Dark Secrets" by Cast Macabre editor, Barry John Northern. (horror short story). [via Cast Macabre]

Classic SF:
@Two-Fisted Tales of True-Life Weird Romance: "The Tree of Life" by C. L. Moore. (1936).
"A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar - a tale of Northwest Smith." Scanned JPEGS from Weird Tales vol. 28. #. 3.

@BestScienceFictionStories: "18 Fantastic Robot Stories" 18 robot stories reviewed and linked to, many of them free.


Audio Fiction:





@Escape Pod: Episode #284 "On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy" by Desmond Warzel, read by Joshua McNichols. Streaming and in MP3 download.

@Pseudopod: Episode #221: "Lives" by John Grant, read by Eric Luke.

@Cast Macabre: "Two in the Morning" by Kella Hanna-Wayne, read by Barry J. Northern.

Serial Audio:
@The Guild of Cowry Catchers: Cowry Catchers Book 3 – Episode 5


Flash Fiction:



@Every Day Fiction: "The Perfect Song" by Christopher Lockheardt.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Lessons from Grandma" by Michael A. Kechula.
@365 tomorrows: The Things Between Us by Jason Frank.
@Every Day Fiction: "The Strange Fate of George Morris’ Brother's Dirty Old Shoe" by T.C. Powell.
@365 tomorrows: "Seeding" by John Wallace.


Gaming
At Peril Planet: FU: Free, Universal Roleplaing Game.
"FU is a game of action, adventure and fun! It is a roleplaying game of grand proportions and stupefying simplicity. FU lets you create exciting stories in any setting imaginable, with a minimum of fuss, or even preparation."

In a free PDF download HERE. [via DriveThruRPG]





At A Character for Every Game: "Ruins of the Gorgon" a fully stocked dungeon map. Essentially a small module with all the crunchy bits, just leaving the flavor text for the DM. (I sounded like Brian from KoDT there).

Online HERE.



At The Land of NOD: "League of Groovy Gentlemen (and Ladies). " "Essentially ... something like the League of Extraordinary Gentleman using only '70s television" Interesting, with some unusual choices. For Mystery Men! (available as a free PDF here).


Online HERE.



Small, But Cool, Gaming Freebies
@Strange Magic: [Monster Makeover] The Flail Snail.
@Strange Magic: [New Class] Bene Gesserit.
@Strange Magic: [New Class] Mentat.
@ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog: [New Monster] Zombie Shrieker.
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [New Magic Item] Infernal Shield of Count Blackfire.
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [New Magic Item] Devilstone.
@The Land of NOD: [Encounter] Mu-Pan - Encounter VI.
@A Character for Every Game: [Map/Encounter] Ochre Rock – a level 2-3 encounter.
@Blog on the Borderlands: [New Magic Item] Wand of Pain.
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