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 154: Court Bindings
July 09, 2015 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBBy Karalynn Lee, from Issue #177 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. The sparrow had too diminutive a mind to realize it could serve you longer by taking time to eat and sleep. More info »
BCS 153: The Girl with Golden Hair
June 25, 2015 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBBy Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.“Where are all the people?” she asked. I neighed, unsure. Why would they hide in their caves when two strangers appeared? More info »
BCS Audio Vault 019: The Nine-Tailed Cat
June 18, 2015 04:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBBy Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails. More info »
BCS 152: The Warriors, The Mothers, The Drowned
June 11, 2015 04:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBBy Kay Chronister, from Issue #175 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Ana thought the land of the dead would be empty, but it is full to bursting. More info »
BCS 151: Two to Leave
May 28, 2015 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBBy Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #174 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The 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 »
BCS 150: The Punctuality Machine, Or, A Steampunk Libretto
May 14, 2015 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBBy Bill Powell, from Issue #173 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A 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 »
BCS 149: Swallowing Silver
April 30, 2015 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBBy Erin Cashier, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 018: Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride
April 21, 2015 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBBy Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS 148: The Fires of Mercy
April 16, 2015 04:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBBy Spencer Ellsworth, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The assassin, the mother, and the child fled into the desert. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 017: Hangman
April 09, 2015 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBBy Erin Cashier, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it. More info »
BCS 147: The Sixth Day
April 02, 2015 04:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBBy Sylvia Anna Hivén, from Issue #170 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Except one day, Cassie ain't telling me what will vanish. She tells me something's coming. More info »
BCS 146: Sun, Stone, Spear
March 19, 2015 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBBy Carrie Vaughn, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 016: Blighted Heart
March 12, 2015 04:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBBy Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS 145: A Screech of Gulls
March 05, 2015 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBBy Alyc Helms, from Issue #168 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Tutti 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 »
BCS 144: The King in the Cathedral
February 19, 2015 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBBy 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 »
BCS 143: The Metamorphoses of Narcissus
February 05, 2015 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBBy Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 015: The Ascent of Unreason
January 29, 2015 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBBy Marie Brennan, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. If Tolyat wanted to see the whole of Driftwood at once, he had to get close to the Crush. More info »
BCS 142: Everything Beneath You
January 22, 2015 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBBy Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 014: Between Shifting Skin and Certainty
January 15, 2015 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBBy Justin Howe, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. “If it was the last skin you wore,” he said, “would you take it?” More info »
BCS 141: Novel Excerpt Galápagos Regained
January 08, 2015 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBBy James Morrow, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated 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 »
BCS Audio Vault 013: Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping
January 02, 2015 04:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBBy Geoffrey Maloney, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced 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 »
BCS 140: Alloy Point
December 25, 2014 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBBy Sam J. Miller, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The metalman had always been behind her, its steel hooks eager to split her open, for as far back as she could remember. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 012: The Last Gorgon
December 18, 2014 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBBy Rajan Khanna, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. I lift the Gorgon’s head and remember my mother as she lay dying in her bed. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 011: System, Magic, Spirit
December 04, 2014 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBBy T.D. Edge, from Issue #162 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. There's nothing better than low-ranking, fad-following royalty for extinguishing any last desire to even bother fighting for one's life against other wizards in the Ring. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 010: Armistice Day
November 20, 2014 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBBy Marissa Lingen, from Issue #161 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. Things got worse when they started to have their flush of post-war babies and wanted us back out again. More info »
BCS 139: The Streetking
November 13, 2014 04:00 - 21 minutes - 14.4 MBBy Peter Hickman, from Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine I knew the streets. I were a quick strike and a wary eye, but this... More info »
BCS Audio Vault 009: Ill-Met at Midnight
November 06, 2014 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBBy David Tallerman, from Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by narrator John Meagher. The target was thrashing hard enough that the smooth handles of the garrote were biting into Otranto's palms. More info »
BCS 138: The Rugmaker’s Lovers
October 30, 2014 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBBy Brynn MacNab, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. Something sat in the rugmaker's belly, small and solid and chill, and her husband's songs ceased to warm it. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 008: The Suffering Gallery
October 23, 2014 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBBy Matthew Kressel, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. “Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?” More info »
BCS 137: Butterfly House
October 16, 2014 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBBy Gwendolyn Clare, from Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine.The body's exposed intestines writhed with pale-pink caterpillars, Corpsewing larvae, a sight Yinghua found at once repulsive and fascinating. More info »
BCS 136: The Moon Over Red Trees
October 09, 2014 04:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBBy Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #157, Sixth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Read by Kate Baker of Clarkesworld Magazine. ...where she might well always be the jumped-up little Annamite to other Frenchmen—but what does it matter, if she has Raoul's love? More info »
BCS 135: The Sorrow of Rain
October 02, 2014 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBBy Richard Parks, from Issue #157, Sixth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine I considered what he had said now as I regarded the rain spirit. “I believe that there’s something the headman isn’t telling us.” More info »
BCS Audio Vault 007: Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood
September 25, 2014 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBBy Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. But we—we are alive, in a way that no other making will be. More info »
BCS 134: The Good Deaths, Part II
September 18, 2014 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBBy Angela Ambroz, from Issue #156 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly.The Lord Buddha spoke to me that night. He said to take my hatchet, dust it off, and get to those towns and saloons out there. Those damnable pits of damnation. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 006: The Penitent
September 11, 2014 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBBy M. Bennardo, from Issue #156 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. All day, No. 17596 waited, but the guards never came. More info »
BCS 133: No Sweeter Art
September 04, 2014 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBBy Tony Pi, from Issue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A 2015 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast. Narrated by John Meagher. My soul sunk beneath the platform planks and into a sturdy ox figurine with wisps of cooled caramel for its horns. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 005: Pale
August 28, 2014 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBBy Kathryn Allen, from Issue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by author Marie Brennan. I take my time undressing her, half-expecting for The Marshal to come calling. More info »
BCS 132: Five Fruits I Ate in Sandar Land
August 21, 2014 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.5 MBBy Michael Haynes, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine I hesitate, but only for a second. Surely Rose would forgive me. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 004: Precious Meat
August 14, 2014 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBBy Catherine S. Perdue, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by audiobook narrator John Meagher. I am Boon. I lead my pack. More info »
BCS 131: The Topaz Marquise
August 07, 2014 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBBy Fran Wilde, from Issue #153 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine I could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 003: Haxan
July 31, 2014 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBBy Kenneth Mark Hoover, from Issue #153 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. Her words got me to thinking about my past. What there was to remember. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 002: One Ear Back
July 17, 2014 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBBy Tina Connolly, from Issue #152 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. I was looking into his ankle, then there was a frightening jerk on my tail and I was peering into his long wide face. More info »
BCS Audio Vault 001: How the Wicker Knight Would Not Move
June 28, 2014 20:29 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBBy Chris Willrich, from Issue #151 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by Hugo Award-winning editor Lou Anders. "And yet Now is upon us," said Tvarn Wind-Tamer. "For the Perfection is moving. Look." More info »
BCS 130: The Black Waters of Lethe
June 26, 2014 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.68 MBBy Oliver Buckram, from Issue #150 - Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Norm Sherman of The Drabblecast. I scan the opposite shore of the wide river for any sign of human activity, for the people who sent the boat. More info »
BCS 129: Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands
June 12, 2014 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBBy Vylar Kaftan, from Issue #149 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Their bodies returned to the tar pit, the fierce source of his power; and this was the work of my hated lord and master. More info »
BCS 128: The Use and the Need
May 29, 2014 04:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBBy M. Bennardo, from Issue #148 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. From three blocks away, Tom Brown could hear the big bass drum from the Women's Christian Temperance Union band as they thundered down Second Avenue. More info »
BCS 127: We, As One, Trailing Embers
May 15, 2014 05:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBBy E. Catherine Tobler, from Issue #147 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Ann Leckie.With eyes closed, there is a singular heartbeat, a solitary pulse, and when we stretch, there is no we. More info »
BCS 126: The Lighthouse Keepers
May 01, 2014 05:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBBy Nicole M. Taylor, from Issue #146 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The 300th story to appear in BCS! It was a frightening, lovely thing; the way the great lens refracted the firelight and sent it out over the water. More info »
BCS 125: At the Edge of the Sea
April 17, 2014 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBBy Raphael Ordoñez, from Issue #145 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Read by Michael J. DeLuca. Blood is salt, like seawater; the heart moves an ocean in miniature. More info »
BCS 124: Golden Daughter, Stone Wife
April 03, 2014 04:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBBy Benjanun Sriduangkaew, from Issue #144 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine.Tomorrow she will confront; tomorrow she will demand. In this house she is no one’s lesser. More info »