Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts
373 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★ - 202 ratingsAudio podcasts of short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine.
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BCS Audio Vault 033: The Three Feats of Agani
January 13, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBBy 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 »
BCS 287: Redfin Spine
January 01, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBBy Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #346 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. I thought I saw a smile flicker past in the dark, quick as one of his sharktooth arrows. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 032: As Tight As Any Knot
December 02, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBBy M.A. Carrick, from Issue #344 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 031: Undercurrents
November 18, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBBy Charles Payseur, from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 030: Rivers Run Free
November 11, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBBy Charles Payseur, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS 286: No Say
November 04, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBBy Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 029: Every Tiny Tooth and Claw (or, Letters from the First Month of the New Directorate)
October 28, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBBy Marissa Lingen, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS 285: The Last Days of Summer in the City of Olives
October 21, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBBy Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. "Tell me, Maria," she said. "What is happening to our people?" More info »
BCS Audio Vault 028: The Mermaid Astronaut
October 08, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBBy Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS 284: Stronger
October 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBBy K.J. Parker, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Heath Miller. Love is the arrow that pins us down so we can't escape. More info »
BCS 283: In Case You’re the One to Devour a Star
September 23, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBBy Tamara Jerée, from Issue #339 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Maxine L. Moore. Her voice is soft when she speaks, as if anything louder could aggravate my old wound. More info »
BCS 282: The Shape of Wings and Feathers
September 09, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBBy Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #338 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. But this is a test designed to weed the weak from the strong, and part of Bryce realizes that she must try something different. More info »
BCS 283: The Shape of Wings and Feathers
September 09, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBBy Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #338 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. But this is a test designed to weed the weak from the strong, and part of Bryce realizes that she must try something different. More info »
BCS 281: For Rain Is To Wet and Fire To Burn
August 26, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBBy Robert Minto, from Issue #337 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The angels plunged into the orange glowing mouth of my kiln. More info »
BCS 280: A Flower Cannot Love the Hand
June 17, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBBy Aimee Ogden, from Issue #332 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. I am still myself and so I am answered at last: yes, I have a soul, no matter what shape its vessel is forced into. More info »
BCS 279: The Woods Echo Back
June 03, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBBy Tania Fordwalker, from Issue #331 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. Shon knows silence well. More info »
BCS 278: Hassan the Executioner Walks Out of Jawasar for the Last Time
May 20, 2021 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBBy R.K. Duncan, from Issue #330 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh. Hassan had loved her, but his eyes had still been clear enough to know how the world saw her. More info »
BCS 277: Oak Apple Night
May 06, 2021 04:00 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MBBy Marie Brennan, from Issue #329 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine None of them would talk about it—except to say, as her father had, that this was Penderel family tradition. More info »
BCS 276: A Stranger Goes Ashore
April 22, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBBy Adam R. Shannon, from Issue #328 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. Every new shore was the same: a blue expanse conjoined to unyielding volcanic stone, wreathed in a furious margin of foam. More info »
BCS 275: The Captain and the Quartermaster
March 25, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBBy C.L. Clark, from Issue #326 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris. Commander Maeb Len knows that, more than anything, an army needs hope in order to struggle onward. More info »
BCS 274: Dead at the Feet of a God
March 11, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBBy Izzy Wasserstein, from Issue #325 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Setsu Uzumé. The portents float at the edge of your vision, haunt your dreams, shake themselves free with each throwing of the bones. More info »
BCS 273: When Your Being Here is Gentler Than Your Absence Hard
February 11, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBBy Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #323 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. She is Fallon Deere, First Minister to the Free State of Altorania, and you are you, the woman who sent me to her side. More info »
BCS 272: The Guadalupe Witch
January 28, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBBy Josh Rountree, from Issue #322 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris. I was never that person, no matter how hard Ellard and so many others tried to turn me into her. More info »
BCS 271: Colombina
January 01, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBBy Jelena Dunato, from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. Put me on, girl, you’ve nothing to lose. More info »
BCS 270: As Tight as Any Knot
January 01, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBBy M.A. Carrick, from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine. Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care. More info »
BCS 269: The Garden Where No One Ever Goes
December 03, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 9.87 MBBy P H Lee, from Issue #318 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Summer Fletcher. I meet you in the middle of the night in the garden where no one goes. More info »
BCS 268: A Land of Blood and Snow
November 05, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBBy Cooper Anderson, from Issue #316 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Rajan Khanna. There is no safety for us anymore in the waxing and waning of the moon. More info »
BCS 267: The Heart That Saves You May Be Your Own
October 01, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBBy Merrie Haskell, from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. You carry a rifle and a dream of a white dress. You sleep under the stars. You hunt. More info »
BCS 266: A Minor Exorcism
September 24, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBBy Richard Parks, from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A more tunnel-like hole had been dug into some of the graves, possibly to test them for the freshness of the corpses. More info »
BCS 265: Deep in the Drift, Spinning
September 10, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBBy Lisa L. Hannett, from Issue #312 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris. A pause only Winnifletch herself notices, a twinge in her guts as she unsacks the gull that Gert Mews has lugged to her sea-spindle shack. More info »
BCS 264: Doorway, Smile, Kiss, Fox
August 27, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBBy Jeremy Packert Burke, from Issue #311 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine I have wondered these past two years which of us would meet our end first—myself or the city. More info »
BCS 263: Seven Dreams of a Valley
July 02, 2020 04:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBBy Prashanth Srivatsa, from Issue #307 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh. On the fourth night... ...I was at a wedding. More info »
BCS 262: The Augur and the Girl Left at His Door
June 18, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBBy Greta Hayer, from Issue #306 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine. The augur could read on her skin that she would be cared for by an old man who was not her kin. More info »
BCS 261: The Widow
June 04, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBBy Emma Törzs, from Issue #305 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. I hear you are yourself of low birth, Monsieur de la Martinière, and so may understand what it’s like to experience, for the first time, not even luxury but safety. More info »
BCS 260: The Honey of the World and the Queen of Crows
May 21, 2020 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBBy Dimitra Nikolaidou, from Issue #304 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The clock is huge, its heavy frame carved with crow feathers and bees, and I dare not look at it too long for fear the hands will start moving again. More info »
BCS 259: Fox Red, Life Red, Teeth Like Snow
May 07, 2020 04:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBBy Devin Miller, from Issue #303 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. No troll’s life is so shaped by her body. More info »
BCS 258: Who Goes Against a Waste of Waters
April 23, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBBy Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #302 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine We are the only ones left to herd the ghost-sheep. More info »
BCS 257: Her Cage of Root and Bone
April 09, 2020 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBBy Kali Wallace, from Issue #301 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.We do not discuss, Nell and I. More info »
BCS 255: Uzumaki of the Lake
March 26, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBBy Richard Parks, from Issue #300, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine I knew from long experience that yūrei could take on shapes not their own in the course of settling unfinished earthly business. More info »
BCS 256: Uzumaki of the Lake
March 26, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBBy Richard Parks, from Issue #300, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine I knew from long experience that yūrei could take on shapes not their own in the course of settling unfinished earthly business. More info »
BCS 255: The Sniper and I
March 12, 2020 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBBy Rich Larson, from Issue #299 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Rajan Khanna.One nerve cable was still in place, snaking from the gun into their skull. More info »
BCS 254: The Mermaid Astronaut
February 27, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBBy Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #298 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam. More info »
BCS 253: John Simnel’s First Goshawk
February 13, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBBy Tegan Moore, from Issue #297 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Though in the muffled dark of my room I wonder if I might instead go mad. More info »
BCS 252: Forgive Me, My Love, for the Ice and the Sea
January 30, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBBy C.L. Clark, from Issue #296 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris. I made my way to Issheth, my boots crunching on the deck frost. Her eyes shone wet in the sunlight. Maybe it was the glare. Maybe it was not. More info »
BCS 251: Every Tiny Tooth and Claw (or: Letters from the First Month of the New Directorate)
January 16, 2020 05:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBBy Marissa Lingen, from Issue #295 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly and Setsu Uzumé. 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 »
BCS 250: These Wondrous Sweets
January 02, 2020 05:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBBy Tony Pi, from Issue #294 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by John Meagher. I carefully blew a caramel bubble and made sure that it was inflated enough to serve as the tiger’s body. More info »
BCS 249: The Gods Come to Sredna
November 07, 2019 05:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBBy T.S. McAdams, from Issue #290 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Like the log stockades of Sredna, it would hold a ceratopsid until she decided to leave. More info »
BCS 248: The Butcher, the Baker
October 24, 2019 04:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBBy Mike Allen, from Issue #289 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Frowning at the hole left in Trukos's chest by the Goldbrook man’s knife, Mayya said, “Come with me.” More info »
BCS 247: The Edges of the World
October 10, 2019 04:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBBy Grace Seybold, from Issue #288 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. Today it’s the moon that has him thinking of long ago, but lately anything might do it. More info »
BCS 246: Sankalpa
October 03, 2019 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBBy Marie Brennan, from Issue #287, Eleventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by S.B. Divya. Again and again I died. Better to cut my thread short and start again than waste lifetimes on a path that would not lead me to my goal. More info »