Free Fiction for 10/8/11

Posted on October 8, 2011 by DavidTackett in Free Fiction // 3 Comments

Written

@AE: “Last Words” by Chester Burton Brown.
@AEG: “The Life of the Warrior” by Brian Yoon.
@Aurora Wolf: “The Hunt” by Julius Vagdal.
@Aurora Wolf: “Captain Bogey of Canine Command: The Ball of Yarn Incident” By Rory Steves.
@Aurora Wolf: “Kitchen Life for the Greater Good” by Opal Edgar.
@Aurora Wolf: “If the Shoe Fits” by John C. Tremblay.
@Anotherealm: “The White Woman” by Robert D. Marion .
@Daily Science Fiction: “Her Majesty’s Guardian” by Donald S. Crankshaw.
@Daily Science Fiction: “Totemkill” by by Sean Vivier.
@Daily Science Fiction: “Regret Incorporated” by Andy and RJ Astruc.
@Daily Science Fiction: “The Last Seed” by Ken Liu.
@Fantasy Magazine: “The Secret Beach” by Tim Pratt.
@GigaNotoSaurus: “Jackstraw Magic” by Eljay Daly.
@LightSpeed: “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro.
@Philippine Genre Stories: “Escape” by Dean Francis Alfar.
@Ray Gun Revival: “Eternal Virus” by Steve Stanton.
@Short Story Me: “A Duel To The Undeath” by John C. Wilson.
@Strange Horizons: “Destiny, With a Blackberry Sauce” by David J. Schwartz.

Now Posted: Aurealis #45
- “The Bunyipslayer and the Bounty Hunter” by Lachlan Huddy.
- “One Hundred Years” by Aimee Smith.
Now Posted: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #79
- “The Tiger’s Turn” by Richard Parks.
- “The Calendar of Saints” by Kat Howard.
- “A Spoonful of Salt” by Nicole M. Taylor.
- “The Judge’s Right Hand” by J.S. Bangs.
Now Posted: The Chiaroscuro – Volume 49 (October-December, 2011).
- “In the House of Houses” by Claude Lalumière.
- “La Divina Commedia” by Katherine Mankiller.
- “Snicker-Snack” by A. D. Bloom.
- “Stars Fell On Alabama” by Jesse Bullington.
Now Posted: Clarkesworld #61
- “Staying Behind” by Ken Liu.
- “Pony” by Erik Amundsen.
- “Silently and Very Fast (Part One)” by Catherynne M. Valente.
Now Posted: Four Star Quarterly #3
- “Re-Opening Night” by Lou Antonelli.
- “Windows” by Gloria Oliver.
- “Closet Enlightenment” by Selina Rosen.
- “Operation Hell” by Cathy Spangler.
Now Posted: Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #10
- “Queen of the Desert” by Alex Marshall.
- “The Workshop of the Lord of the Estuary and the Wages of Heroism” by James Frederick William Rowe.
- “Death at the Pass” by Michael R. Fletcher.
Now Posted: Redstone Science Fiction #17 October 2011
- “iTime” by Ferrett Steinmetz.
- “How We Fall” by Andrew Knighton.
Now Posted: Residential Aliens 5..7 – October 2011
- “Rivalry on the Sky Course” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
- “Brother Silence” by Karina Fabian.
- “The Old Magician’s Club” by Louis N. Gruber
- “The Fletcher’s Daughter” by Jeff Chapman.
- “Freedom of Movement” by Steven Saus.
Now Posted: Stone Telling #5 featuring speculative poetry by Patricia Monaghan, Yoon Ha Lee, Shira Lipkin, JT Stewart, Delia Sherman, Erik Amundsen, Sofia Samatar, Alexandra Seidel, Elizabeth McClellan, Sonya Taaffe, Koel Mukherjee, Jennifer Givhan, Mike Allen, Eliza Victoria.
Now Posted: Theaker’s Quarterly #38.
- “The Lives and Spacetimes of Thornton Excelsior” by Rhys Hughes.
- “The Daylight Witch” by Jim Steel.
- “Off and On Again” by Alison Littlewood.
- “Old Preach’s Gods” by Z.J. Woods.
- “Better than Llandudno, eh?” by Michael W. Thomas.

Written – Serialized

@Author’s Site: “The Journals of Doctor Mormeck (Mountain)-Entry #21” by Jeff VanderMeer.
@Kat and Mouse: “Into The Woods – Part Two” by Abner Senires.
@More Red Ink: “Exo-Skeleton Town – part two, part three, and part four” by Jeffrey Ford.
@Paizo: “The Box – Chapter Two: Where the Heart Is” by Bill Ward.
@Ray Gun Revival: “Thieves’ Honor Episode 16: Game Change” by Keanan Brand.

Audio

@Beam Me Up: Episode #281 “Am I still Here?” by James R. Hall and the conclusion to The Dark InSpectre by Jason Kahn.
@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “Butterfly” by Garth Upshaw.
@Beware the Hairy Mango: Episode 87 – “Second Puberty” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
@Clarkesworld: “Staying Behind” by Ken Liu, read by Kate Baker.
@Classic Tales Podcast: “The Lord of the Dynamos” by H.G. Wells, read by B.J. Harrison.
@Drama Pod: “The Blue Tower” by Evelyn Smith.
@Dunesteef: “The Troop” by Harris Tobias.
@Escape Pod: “Night Bird Soaring” by T. L. Morganfield, read by Mat Weller.
@Escape Pod: “Playing Doctor” by Robert T. Jeschonek, read by Josh Roseman.
@Fantasy Magazine: “The Secret Beach” by Tim Pratt, read by Christian Rummel.
@Journey Into: “The Trial of Thomas Jefferson” by David Barr Kirtley.
@LightSpeed: “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro, read by Kathe Mazur.
@Misfits Audio: “Jerry Lee” by Colin Thornton, performed by a full cast.
@PodCastle: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Eric Luke.
@Pseudopod: “The Voice In The Night” by William Hope Hodgson, read by Wilson Fowlie.
@StarShipSofa: “Blood Dauber” by Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore.

Audio – Serialized

@Author’s Site: “The Starter – Episode #34” by Scott Sigler.
@Drama Pod: “While Whispers Wait – Episode One” by James Sedgwick, performed by a full cast.

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