Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #355 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Time is the greatest sorcerer, and eventually it will force him into a new shape: a sea-bloated corpse.More info »

By Derrick Boden, from Issue #354 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The monster-thing watched with great interest. Leti turned the page and started to read.More info »

By AnaMaria Curtis, from Issue #353 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.I always wanted the best of as many worlds as I could get my hands on, though I only ever managed two.More info »

By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #352 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.My name’s Zilda Trueshake and I’m big for twelve, or so Dad Bray is always like to tell.More info »

By Patty Templeton, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.More info »

By Peter Darbyshire, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, explaining the genesis of the Angel Azrael character, his horror-influenced Weird Western world, and the personal bibles in that world.The angel Azrael surveyed the remains of the town. The place was as dead as the horse he sat on. More info »

By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations from inter-generational political attitudes in families of immigrants and patriarchal culture and how its use of science-fantasy elements shaped its presentation.She says instead: "because he isn’t coming."More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Thanh Lan walked to the door, legs shaking.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #349 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The third bonsai swayed to the bleak tides of distant and colliding black hole inspirals.More info »

By J.A. Prentice, from Issue #348 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.There was silence in the workshop, and for a terrible moment, he was afraid he would receive an answer.More info »

By Christie Yant, from Issue #347 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, posing questions as to who stories belong to and whether they matter.I had hoped to tell you the first story in the summers to come. It is my sorrowful task to tell you all three, instead.More info »

By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #346 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I thought I saw a smile flicker past in the dark, quick as one of his sharktooth arrows.More info »

By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #344 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, the two authors behind the M.A. Carrick pen name, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson.Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.More info »

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s take on resistance and cooperation.Rory nods. The bullets are Lutean-made, salt and iron and whatever special magic they use to make them potent against rivers.More info »

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s element that oppression can link people together and can tear people apart.We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.More info »

By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Unless Tadie didn’t let him. She stepped a pace back and pulled Loyd with her, away from Jessen.More info »

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, discussing the story’s approach to characters and politics and to political systems.I don't want to make all our letters about shrews, love, but... I've attached a table I'd like to see filled out with different properties of the shrews and their venom. Thank you!More info »

By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly."Tell me, Maria," she said. "What is happening to our people?"More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, explaining the inspiration for the story and its ending note.This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Love is the arrow that pins us down so we can't escape.More info »