Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Kay Chronister, from Issue #175 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineAna thought the land of the dead would be empty, but it is full to bursting.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #174 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe Drought Guard had sent twelve-and-twelve of their own after me, which might have held numerological significance if I still cared about such things.More info »

By Bill Powell, from Issue #173 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA 2016 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast. A special large-cast reading in honor of our 150th episode, featuring the narratorial talents of Michael J. DeLuca, Tina Connolly, and Bill Powell.WHITLOCK: (aside) An identical response! Perhaps free will is a mere illusion. On the other hand, she's an automaton.More info »

By Erin Cashier, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA special Weird Western podcast.John Halpern knew it should be a heavy weight on his conscience, to wake up and know that he was going to kill a thing that used to be a man.More info »

By Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.So when Mister Hadj said that a stone in the road told him where we'd find Parson Lucifer, I didn’t doubt it.More info »

By Spencer Ellsworth, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe assassin, the mother, and the child fled into the desert.More info »

By Erin Cashier, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it.More info »

By Sylvia Anna Hivén, from Issue #170 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineExcept one day, Cassie ain't telling me what will vanish. She tells me something's coming.More info »

By Carrie Vaughn, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.We wait until there is only the sound of blowing wind and the cry of a jackdaw. I nod, Elu nods back.More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.His eyes, shining yellow in the night, were the ones I remembered from the day I had lost my heart.More info »

By Alyc Helms, from Issue #168 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineTutti loves only three things in this world, and he loves them well: his birds, his liquor, and Gemma, the junkmonger who keeps the stall next to his barrel.More info »

By Rich Larson, from Issue #167 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine“How disappointing I must seem,” he said at last. “I didn’t know I’d become a folk figure. I would have grown a great beard.”More info »

By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.I lay on the drowned grand piano, naked, my head that of a chess-horse, my hands and feet stumps oozing black-green blood onto the keys.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.If Tolyat wanted to see the whole of Driftwood at once, he had to get close to the Crush.More info »

By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I wanted to ask her more questions, about the way the world was made, about death and dreams, but did not want to know the answers.More info »

By Justin Howe, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.“If it was the last skin you wore,” he said, “would you take it?”More info »

By James Morrow, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by T.D. Edge.Chloe’s first instinct was to hustle Willy and Annie out of the zoo, lest they learn prematurely there was such a thing as atheism.More info »

By Geoffrey Maloney, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the narrator, T.D. Edge.They couldn't be serious, Morrow thought...but then the Major allowed the squid to slip from his fingers and into his mouth.More info »

By Sam J. Miller, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe metalman had always been behind her, its steel hooks eager to split her open, for as far back as she could remember.More info »

By Rajan Khanna, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I lift the Gorgon’s head and remember my mother as she lay dying in her bed.More info »