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 245: Portrait Of The Artist
September 26, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBBy K.J. Parker, from Issue #287, Eleventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Carla Kissane. “I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious. More info »
BCS 244: The Silent Flowers of the Magician’s Garden
September 12, 2019 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBBy Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #286 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Something hardened in my world, the way it did every time my father told me that being a man meant being brave. More info »
BCS 244: The Silent Flowers of the Magician’s Garden
September 12, 2019 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBBy Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #286 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Something hardened in my world, the way it did every time my father told me that being a man meant being brave. More info »
BCS 243: A Song for the Leadwood Tree
August 29, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBBy Aimee Ogden, from Issue #285 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.The morning of her last day as queen, Nehan's mouth begins to bleed before her attendants finish braiding her hair. More info »
BCS 242: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away
July 04, 2019 04:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBBy Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #281 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. 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 241: Black, Like Earth
June 20, 2019 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBBy Jordyn Blanson, from Issue #280 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.“You most cover it up,” Aksá says, startling me. They hand me long strips of torn fabric. “Let no one know.” More info »
BCS 240: Revival
June 06, 2019 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBBy Lisa M. Bradley, from Issue #279 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Sandra Espinoza. If she were darker brown, might she disappear into the shadows altogether? More info »
BCS 239: The Two-Bullet War
May 23, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBBy Karen Osborne, from Issue #278 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Setsu Uzumé. Mila kept herself still like a statue, like the weapon she was supposed to be, even though inside she was screaming no, I will not, you can’t just ask me to do that. More info »
BCS 238: The Bone Flute Quartet
May 09, 2019 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBBy KJ Kabza, from Issue #277 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. In no time at all, I was flying south over fields and forest, as true as an assassin's arrow. More info »
BCS 237: Fury at the Crossroads
April 25, 2019 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBBy Troy L. Wiggins, from Issue #276 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris. Furious Jackson reclined on the banks of the BlackDog river and strummed her guitar for an audience of dead cypress. More info »
BCS 236: The Red Honey Witch
April 11, 2019 04:00 - 21 minutes - 14.4 MBBy Jessica Paddock, from Issue #275 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. But most of all she hated the bees, who buzzed about her head and asked to be let in. More info »
BCS 235: Undercurrents
March 28, 2019 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBBy Charles Payseur, from Issue #274 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Dave Thompson.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 234: New Horizons
March 14, 2019 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBBy Alexander Stanmyer, from Issue #273 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Now Chester is a disciple. An acolyte to the rails. And this was to be their final pilgrimage. More info »
BCS 233: When Sirens Sing of Roses and of Delegated Power
February 28, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBBy Nin Harris, from Issue #272 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris. “Much of what we have in our lives originated as ideas in the human world—even in your parlour furniture.” Velia was always too happy to point out the obvious. More info »
BCS 232: Adrianna in Pomegranate
February 14, 2019 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBBy Samantha Mills, from Issue #271 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine It was unfair, the way he summoned her here for these tense bimonthly appointments. It was unfair, the way she persisted in showing up rather than sending an apprentice. More info »
BCS 231: To Stab with a Rose, to Love with a Knife
January 31, 2019 05:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBBy Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #270 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. Then the night comes when the Lady summons me to her room and I go, I do. More info »
BCS 230: The Deepest Notes of the Harp and Drum
January 17, 2019 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBBy Marissa Lingen, from Issue #269 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Setsu Uzume. I killed my sister with my own two hands. More info »
BCS 229: The Blighted Godling of Company Town H
January 03, 2019 05:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBBy Beth Cato, from Issue #268 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly."Take a look. I have them here with me. Please, godling." The girl's fear seeped into the words—as did her faith that Dreya would make everything right again. More info »
BCS 228: Feral Attachments at Kulle Bland Bergen
November 22, 2018 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBBy T.S. McAdams, from Issue #265 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine They lost Bragi—Harald lost him—in late spring, when the snow was mostly gone and meadows were livid with velvetbells, ogre-thistle, and mountain orchid. More info »
BCS 227: In the Ground, Before the Freeze
November 08, 2018 05:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBBy Margaret Ronald, from Issue #264 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Katrin had known since she was a little girl what her husband would look like, ever since she was old enough to understand that Aunt Gunna had deeded her farm to Katrin. More info »
BCS 226: The Oracle and the Sea
October 25, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBBy Megan Arkenberg, from Issue #263 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Every month when the soldiers bring her supply of flour and milk, they also bring waterproofed parcels of manuscript paper and cool bricks of ink. More info »
BCS 225: Magic Potion Behind-the-Mountains
October 11, 2018 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBBy Jaymee Goh, from Issue #262, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue II of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.But the magistrate firmly believes that this pursuit will pay off. He will learn the secret magic potion, and he will be vindicated. More info »
BCS 224: Ruby, Singing
September 27, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBBy Fran Wilde, from Issue #261, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue I of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly.There are some in Quadril who will call that my first mistake. They'd be wrong, my child. More info »
BCS 223: Ancestor Night
September 13, 2018 04:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBBy Nina Kiriki Hoffman, from Issue #260 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Setsu Uzumé.As the oldest, I had to make sure I and my four sisters and little brother gave greetings to our parents in their first year under the ice. More info »
BCS 222: Periling Hand
August 30, 2018 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBBy Justin Howe, from Issue #259 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.That morning, everywhere he drove he heard about the murder that wasn’t murder but business done by different name. “A dead incast in Pingree. Shot, tche.” More info »
BCS 221: The Scrimshander
July 05, 2018 04:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBBy Damien Krsteski, from Issue #255 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.He stared into the flickering eyes of the monster he'd drawn, hypnotized, stricken, and his shivering stopped as grief became anger. More info »
BCS 220: The Weaver and the Snake
June 07, 2018 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBBy Blaine Vitallo, from Issue #253 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Reilitas has dreamed of the snake, dreamed of hammering its beautiful onyx scales into ceremonial knives, shields, the faces of clocks. More info »
BCS 219: The Wild Ride of the Untamed Stars
May 24, 2018 04:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBBy A.J. Fitzwater, from Issue #252 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Dan Rabarts.Taking her place in line, the marmot graced her pirate lover with a toothy smile. "Can't let you have all the fun, Cinny." More info »
BCS 218: The Examination Cloth
May 10, 2018 04:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBBy Jonathan Edelstein, from Issue #251 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Slowly, Ukeme read the first row of characters: a knotty point of customary law. The second called for an essay on the Osun Republic’s conquest of Benin two centuries before. The third... More info »
BCS 217: An Account of the Madness of the Magistrate, Chengdhu Village
May 03, 2018 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBBy Richard Parks, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine.Now I understood my impression of the magistrate’s reaction. More, I did not miss Mei Li’s implication—it applied to herself as much as the magistrate. More info »
BCS 216: The Thought That Counts
April 26, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBBy K.J. Parker, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Heath Miller.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 215: Weft
April 12, 2018 04:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBBy Rahul Kanakia, from Issue #249 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by David D. Levine. Sometimes the crimes were egregious. In these cases I ripped up the would-be magicians with no compunctions. But other times... More info »
BCS 214: She Who Hungers, She Who Waits
March 29, 2018 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBBy Cassandra Khaw, from Issue #248 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Mei Huang repeats the rite so many times it becomes indistinguishable from breath, and still every iteration ends with the soldier dead. More info »
BCS 213: Braving the Morrow Candle’s Wane
March 15, 2018 04:00 - 16 minutes - 11 MBBy J.W. Alden, from Issue #247 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Adia's fingers found the blade hidden in the folds of her kirtle. She dismissed the pang of guilt at the thought of what she now must do. More info »
BCS 212: Gennesaret
March 01, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBBy Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #246 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.She says instead: "because he isn’t coming." More info »
BCS 211: Penitents
February 15, 2018 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBBy Rich Larson, from Issue #245 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly.The cube is like nothing she’s ever seen, an enormous black box composed of a thousand shifting slivers breaking and melding, rippling, almost liquid. More info »
BCS 210: The Starship and the Temple Cat
February 01, 2018 04:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBBy Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #244 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.She had been a young cat when the Fleet Lords burned the City of High Bells. More info »
BCS 209: Benefactors of Silence
January 18, 2018 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.65 MBBy Nin Harris, from Issue #243 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Malaguena refuses to play most of the pieces dedicated to the other moons, but this sonata, composed for the Swan Moon, accompanies our evenings. More info »
BCS 208: Suite for Accompanied Cello
January 04, 2018 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBBy Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #242 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.I won on my first attempt when I was fourteen; so long ago it seems meaningless. More info »
BCS 207: The Mouth of the Oyster
November 21, 2017 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBBy Adam-Troy Castro & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, from Issue #239 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. And with that I gave up so many things, so many golden sunrises and so many lingering sunsets. More info »
BCS 206: The Şiret Mask
November 09, 2017 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBBy Marie Brennan, from Issue #238 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. Dangling from a rope two hundred feet above the rooftops of Râu Tare, I find myself questioning the decisions that have led me to this point. More info »
BCS 205: Every Black Tree
October 26, 2017 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBBy Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #237 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Serah avoids his eyes. "I've been pregnant a long time," she says after a while. "The baby won't come." More info »
BCS 204: The Fall of the Mundaneum
October 12, 2017 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBBy Rebecca Campbell, from Issue #236 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine There was a letter addressed to him and beneath it a chaos of paper, the slips and sheets and scraps in no obvious order. More info »
BCS 203: On the Road to the Hell of Hungry Ghosts
September 28, 2017 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBBy Richard Parks, from Issue #235, Ninth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine.Yes, one of the Three Jewels of the Tao was compassion, as my father would expound at great length to anyone foolish enough to sit still for it, but in practice we asked a price for such assistance. More info »
BCS 202: Dire Wolf
September 14, 2017 04:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBBy Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #234 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by the author. But for the Wolf, Staggerlee would've written it off as a whiskey vision. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 027: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud
August 31, 2017 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBBy Fran Wilde, from Issue #233 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much. More info »
BCS 201: Rivers Run Free
July 20, 2017 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBBy Charles Payseur, from Issue #230 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Dave Thompson. We ride stolen horses over the choked earth. More info »
BCS 200: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power
July 06, 2017 04:00 - 4 hours - 206 MBBy R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #229 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A special five-hour audio novella in celebration of our 200th episode of the BCS Audio Fiction Podcast! Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney. 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 199: A Late Quintessence
June 22, 2017 04:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBBy Justin Howe, from Issue #228 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Not but three hours ago, beyond my study’s shuttered window I heard the song-girl recite those closing words from Horn’s Ashen Quintessence. More info »
BCS 198: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch
June 08, 2017 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBBy A.J. Lucy, from Issue #227 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. It burns like dust in Sere’s eyes to hear Tashet take her name back, to keep for herself. More info »