What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Baen has a story from John Lambshead from the world of The Commission
2. Nightmare has a story from Joe R. Landsdale
3. Daily Science Fiction has a short one from Ken Liu

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Say no to some drugs, kids. But if you need to ride the tail of the dragon, you can’t beat the free eBook links of the QuasarDragon!

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Strange Horizons has a story from O. J. Cade that’s also available in audio
2. HiLoBrow finishes its serialization of The Comet by W.E.B. Du Bois
3. Tangent Online has some old time radio of a story by John Fleming

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Don’t forget to spend some quality time and space with Dave Tackett’s Quasar Dragon! Now with free cheese*!

* – cheese may be virtual and/or undescribed

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Mad Scientist Journal and Toasted Cake have teamed up to release a K.G. Jewell story in written and audio formats
2. Perihelion June 2013
3. Charles Stross posts a “missing link” short story for his Saturn’s Children / Neptune’s Brood universe.

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And now: Day Three of Robert Jeanbaptiste’s Journal from After The Fires Went Out: Coyote.

What’s special about today’s free fiction? Why, it’s HORROR WEEKEND, OF COURSE. EVERYBODY BE TERRIFIED.

1. Dunesteef#144
2. Pseudopod #338
3. Tales To Terrify #75

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #123 – June 13, 2013
2. A short story from Cory Doctorow
3. Silver Blade #18 – May 2013

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Check the Dragon, cum Quasar for the some great links!

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Nightmare has a scary story from Laird Barron
2. Tor has a very original story from Micaela Morrissette
3. PodCastle has a reading of a fishy story from Liz Argall

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Be sure to smell what the QuasarDragon’s been cooking!

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. AE has a story by Rich Larson
2. Lightspeed has a story by Megan Arkenberg, also available in audio
3. Waylines Magazine #3 – May 2013 is definitely something you’ll want to check out

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Some links “borrowed” from Dave Tackett’s Quasar Dragon: here and here

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I’ve got the second part (Day Two) from the first chapter of After The Fires Went Out: Coyote, in honor of the next book coming out on Friday, June 28th. Part one (Prologue and Day One) is here.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Black Treacle #3 – June 2013
2. Daily Science Fiction has a science fiction story from Robert Reed
3. Escape Pod reads a story from Shane Halbach

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A lovely link stolen from Dave Tackett’s Quasar Dragon. He also has some eBooks listed that I don’t.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Cosmos has a story from Eric Cline
2. Nature has flash fiction from Tony Ballantyne
3. Paizo kicks off another serialization, this latest from Ed Greenwood

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So many new issues from spec fic mags, lovingly lifted from Dave Tackett’s Quasar Dragon.

I’ve also included my flash fiction about love and virtual reality, “Mulligans Wake”.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Electric Spec #8.2 – May 31, 2013
2. Four Star Stories #9 – Spring 2013
3. Niteblade #24 – June 2013 – Forbidden Island
4. Three-Lobe Burning Eye #23 – May 2013
5. Plasma Frequency #6 – June/July 2013

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A terabitload of links stolen from the irreplaceable Dave Tackett and his Quasar Dragon.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Allegory #21.48 – Spring 2013
2. Apex #49 – June 2013
3. Crossed Genres #6 – June 2013
4. New Myths #23
5. The Cafe Irreal #46

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Don’t forget: I’m ragging on about my After The Fires Went Out series this month, leading up to the big release of After The Fires Went Out: Shards on June 28th. So far there’s the serialized first “episode” of Coyote, as well as a fancy Goodreads giveaway for both books.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Kasma SF has a story from Gary Cuba
2. Lovecraft eZine #24 – May 2013
3. Mirror Dance Summer 2013
4. Subterranean Press Summer 2013
5. Kazka Press #2.10 – June 2013

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Clarkesworld #81 – June 2013
2. Ideomancer #12.2
3. Interstellar Fiction #11
4. Luna Station Quarterly #14

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So I just couldn’t decide: was my four part Chapter/Episode One excerpt from After The Fires Went Out: Coyote serialized fiction, or a novel excerpt? It’s designed to be somewhat self-contained, so I did what any attention-hungry Free Fiction King would do. I posted it in both places.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Buzzy Mag has a horror story from Annie Neugebauer
2. Matthew Sanborn Smith’s infamous Beware the Hairy Mango completes its AMAZING month-long MuchoMangoMayo run with #183 – “Pool Man”
3. Silvia Moreno-Garcia has a third and final excerpt from her upcoming novel, Young Blood. If you haven’t contributed to her crowdfunding campaign for the novel, please consider it. She has powerfully evil friends (hint: Chhulhu and Chadwick Ginther).

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Today the first book of Dalya Moon’s Spiritdell series is available free on Amazon. My hopefully-not-too-creepy affection for Dalya led me to name a character after her in my After The Fires Went Out series.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #122 – May 30, 2013
2. Real Pulp has “The Moon Moth” by Jack Vance
3. SF Signal has a story from Yoon Ha Lee, in case you missed it

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Sad news: Jack Vance has passed away. Tor has an excerpt from a novel by Dan Simmons that is based on Vance’s Dying Earth series. I’ve also added an eBook from Project Gutenberg: Sjambak by Jack Vance.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Interfictions has a story from Kiini Ibura Salaam
2. SciFi Ideas has their monthly story, this time by Ruth de Haas
3. Tor has another story from George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe, by Paul Cornell

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Because six posts a week of free fiction links isn’t enough to keep me from working on my writing, I’ve started a new “Writing Wroundup” link post at my website. It’s meant to complement these Free Fiction posts and the world-renowned SF/F/H Link Posts, for speculative fiction writers.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Lightspeed has a science fiction story from Maureen F. McHugh
2. 19 Nocturne Boulevard has the first episode of Atomic Julie’s Bedtime Stories
3. Angry Robot has an excerpt from Chuck Wendig‘s latest, The Blue Blazes (which is already winging its way to my house)

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What’s special about this week’s free fiction?

1. AE has a story from Conor Powers-Smith
2. Black Gate has a story from Mary Catelli
3. Excerpts from Freda Warrington‘s And Their Blood Will Be Prescient to Fire can be found all over the web! Or, you know, here: #1 – #2 – #3 – #4

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. PS Publishing has a story from Nina Allan‘s fantasy collection
   
2. Pseudopod has a Charlie Harmer story from Brendan Detzner
3. Parts One and Two of J M Johnson‘s The Starbirth Assignment series are free on Amazon today

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