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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

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BCS 328: The Dust Eater

March 21, 2024 04:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

By Adam Breckenridge, from Issue #403 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. Ash may be ash, but it still has a soul, and the shreds of Offas that had been reborn in me sung to the ashes’ tune. More info »

BCS 327: Tell the King

February 22, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MB

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #401 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. I imagine my King on the spaceship that would take us away from the only home we’ve ever known in search of a new one. Most of us will live, but the King will die. More info »

BCS 326: The Rug-Maker and the Wonder Collector

February 15, 2024 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.17 MB

By Emily McIntyre, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. The black pupil—property of XCorp, almost human but not quite, recording every curly hair that falls over my face, every flutter of my breath, every tremble of my lips. More info »

BCS 325: Doctor Souvenir

February 08, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MB

By Elly Bangs, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Summer Fletcher. But what kind of weapon could possibly be made out of bittersweet memory? More info »

BCS 324: Willow Wood

January 11, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

By Linda Niehoff, from Issue #398 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. Music like that doesn’t belong inside. It belongs to outside in the night. Quivering in the air with every crawling thing. More info »

BCS 323: What Will Bring You Home

November 30, 2023 05:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MB

By Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #396 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. At the table with you are three fairies, their clothing just as ridiculous and just as shimmering as your own. More info »

BCS 322: Something That Has Never Touched the Ground

November 02, 2023 04:00 - 11 minutes - 8.2 MB

By Marilyn Hope, from Issue #394 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Cat Rambo. Rang has wielded a bow since he was eight, and taking his aim at the King is a sleek and innate motion, like brushing Sunder's dark hair behind one ear to rest his lips on his temple. More info »

BCS 321: The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa

October 19, 2023 04:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MB

By Myna Chang, from Issue #393 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. My ghost is trapped in this bedchamber, much as I was in life. More info »

BCS 320: The Light of Setting Suns

October 05, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

By Samuel Chapman, from Issue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson and Michael J. DeLuca. An incredible silence ensues. Cyfris lets the quiet stretch on long enough for Dovan to know she has caught him. More info »

BCS 319: Where the River Comes From

September 21, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

By Kaitlyn Zivanovich, from Issue #391 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Sandra Espinoza. When Rviv is twelve, she is walking through the town square with her Cuialo crechemates when a stranger hails her in her mother’s language. She stops; her friends do not. More info »

BCS 318: Holding Back the Darkness

September 07, 2023 04:00 - 9 minutes - 6.25 MB

By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. But in that darkness, there is also power. More info »

BCS 317: Interlude: Shelter From the Storm

August 24, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #389 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. “Those with power who do not act? I do judge them.” More info »

BCS 316: Merciful Even to Scorpions

July 27, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

By Kay Chronister, from Issue #387 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Sandra Espinoza. Maribel should have known that the new pig-boy would have to be named soon. More info »

BCS 315: Disassembling Light

June 29, 2023 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

By Kel Coleman, from Issue #385 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Maxine L. Moore. He pointed out more mistakes; some amateur, others he still made on occasion. More info »

BCS 314: Eleanora of the Bones

June 01, 2023 04:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MB

By Kat Howard, from Issue #383 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. Eleanora loved the ossuary best as evening fell. More info »

BCS 313: The Whisper of That Blood

May 18, 2023 04:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB

By Maria Haskins, from Issue #382 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. I loved my Mama. I know she did the best she could. But she was wrong to leave my brother here. More info »

BCS 312: The Cuckoo of Vrežna Mountain

April 20, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #380 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by the author. I knew the power the Godless were imbued with from childhood, to detect the parasite that had destroyed our gods. More info »

BCS 311: Blooms

March 23, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB

By Grace Seybold, from Issue #378 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. Most of what she planted in the garden grew now, even if cabbages cried in the night and tomatoes disappeared. More info »

BCS 310: The Changeling and the Child

March 09, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MB

By Pooja Peravali, from Issue #377 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. How does one explain it to one such as her, how motherhood tugs at you? More info »

BCS 309: Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea

February 23, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MB

By Kelsey Hutton, from Issue #376 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Laurie McDougall. She’d hoped to sew a dress powerful enough to remind the queen who the queen claimed as kin, and who claimed her in return. More info »

BCS 308: A Forcible Calm

February 09, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB

By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #375 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. All four were Brothers of Dule, magicians of a shared heritage and shared interests, her enemies—and yet there might be fissures. More info »

BCS 307: Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya

January 12, 2023 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MB

By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #373 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Marie Brennan. The warp is Constant Ivan, strong and steady. The weft is Clever Natalya, darting here and there. More info »

BCS 306: Half-Spent Was the Night

December 15, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

By Gretchen Tessmer, from Issue #371 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. She finds herself muttering to Jonah, “What if Leah never knows what any color but grey looks like?” More info »

BCS 305: By Hand and By Heart

December 08, 2022 05:00 - 14 minutes - 9.96 MB

By Tina Connolly, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. And this was apparently the point where she was supposed to feel lucky. More info »

BCS 304: He Stays Among the Commots

December 01, 2022 05:00 - 11 minutes - 7.84 MB

By Christopher Rowe, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. All the cantrevs of his homeland had been burned. More info »

BCS Audio Vault 041: A Nickel For The Burlap Man

December 01, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.31 MB

By Patty Templeton, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author, detailing the feel and inspirations for the story’s world of Shady Grove. The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it. More info »

BCS Audio Vault 040: Portrait of the Artist

November 17, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MB

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #369 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by narrator Carla Kissane, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story. “I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious. More info »

BCS Audio Vault 039: The Thought That Counts

November 03, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #368 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by audiobook and podcast narrator Heath Miller, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story. For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name. More info »

BCS 303: Playing God

October 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 51 MB

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Heath Miller. Try thinking about it, the Archer God had said, so I did. More info »

BCS 302: Fire and Brimstone in the Twin Cities

October 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MB

By James Morrow, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. Lot revisits his tankard and frowns thoughtfully. More info »

BCS 301: Of the Body

September 22, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

By Eugenia Triantafyllou, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. I am terrified of the moment when Osarah and I will hunt down the animal that bears our child and kill it. More info »

BCS 300: Five Aspects of River and Sky

September 22, 2022 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24 MB

By Adam R. Shannon, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Featuring Scott H. Andrews, Michael J. DeLuca, Tina Connolly, M.K. Hobson, and Summer Fletcher. Annell's throws always rose high enough that the skies accepted her sacrifice. Why did she have to leave instead of me? More info »

BCS Audio Vault 038: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power

September 08, 2022 04:00 - 5 hours - 210 MB

By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #364 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author, explaining elements of the Birdverse world and culture and characters that appear in the novella and how one of the characters connects with the new Birdverse novel The Unbalancing. Across great distances I hear her voice rolling over the sand, traipsing gently above bones of impossible beasts that perhaps had one day populated the desert. More info »

BCS 299: Imagine a Thief with Golden Fire in Their Voice

August 25, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB

By Riley Neither, from Issue #363 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. I am not saying I don’t have the power. There’s no point in denying that. I’m saying I don’t have the right. More info »

BCS Audio Vault 037: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away

August 11, 2022 04:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MB

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #362 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine With an introduction from the author, explaining their beliefs on the story’s theme of individual freedom and autonomy. The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sapo kneels by the doe and feels for the outlines of the little one with her fingers. A gasp escapes her when it moves under the dead doe's skin. More info »

BCS 298: How to Be a True Woman While Piloting a Steam-Engine Balloon

July 14, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

By Valerie Hunter, from Issue #360 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. Amelia is the best pilot the Territorial Revolutionists have. That's not boasting, it’s just true. More info »

BCS 297: Different Kinds of Thorn

June 16, 2022 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

By Devin Miller, from Issue #358 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine. She has offered a dangerous thing, but oh, it is a sweet one too. To lie with a dryad, queen of the wood, would be an experience unlike any other. More info »

BCS Audio Vault 036: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch

June 02, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MB

By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #357 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations in complicity with institutional systems and activism risking that status for beliefs or people you believe in. Sere wouldn’t be able to send letters. More info »

BCS 296: I Will Sing Your White Bones Home

May 19, 2022 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

By Cat Hellisen, from Issue #356 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. He was speared by a finless, and we watched his head rot at the edge of the sea. More info »

BCS 295: The Mountains of Another World, Where Eagles May Fly Free

May 05, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MB

By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #355 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »

BCS 294: Valor Bones

April 21, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

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

BCS 293: Ten Fruits and Other Memories of Rialynas

April 07, 2022 04:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB

By AnaMaria Curtis, from Issue #353 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »

BCS 292: Venturing

March 24, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #352 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »

BCS 291: A Nickel For The Burlap Man

March 10, 2022 05:00 - 10 minutes - 7.45 MB

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

BCS Audio Vault 035: The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies

March 10, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB

By Peter Darbyshire, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »

BCS Audio Vault 034: Gennesaret

March 03, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB

By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »

BCS 290: At the Foot of the Dragon Stair

February 24, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

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

BCS 289: Bonsai Starships

February 10, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

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

BCS 288: Godmaker

January 27, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MB

By J.A. Prentice, from Issue #348 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »

BCS Audio Vault 033: The Three Feats of Agani

January 13, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB

By Christie Yant, from Issue #347 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »

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