Free SF/F/H Fiction for 5/23/2012

Written

• Bourbon Penn #4 – Apr 2012:
  • “Pearls” by Priya Sharma [Fantasy]
  • “The Mall” by Hannah Lackoff [Fantasy]
  • “A Blade of Love” by Nathaniel Tower [Weird]
  • “The Langsammachen Pitch” by Martin Zeigler [Baseball and Physics]
  • “After the Bees” by Carson Beker [Weird]
  • “Mereá” by Nancy Hightower [Fantasy]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Call” by Erin M. Hartshorn [Fantasy]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Dragoman” by Helen Jackson [Science Fiction]
• The Journal Of Unlikely Entomology #3 – May 2012:
  • “My Day Came” by Conor Powers-Smith
  • “War Beetles” by J. M. McDermott
  • “The Performance” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • “The Familiar Buzz of Gone” by Cate Gardner
  • “Dragonfly Miscalculations” by Steven L. Peck
  • “Skitterings In Corners” by Juliet Kemp
  • “Drift” by Amanda C. Davis
• @Lightspeed: “Different Kinds of Darkness” by David Langford [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed: “Mother of All Russiya” by Melanie Rawn [Fantasy]
• @Mad Scientist Journal: “Therium 99” by Mark Andrew Edwards [Science Fiction]
• Red Penny Papers Vol II, Issue 3 – Spring 2012: (also available as a free ebook)
  • “Bone Daddy” by Britney Smith
  • “Garlic Squash” by Nicki Vardon
  • “The Black Hole or, The Competing Hands of Science and Magick” by Patrick J. Worden
  • “The Castle of Ashes” by Alexandra Seidel
  • “Sacrifice” by Natalie L. Sin
  • “Pins and Needles, Silk and Sawdust” by Tonia Brown
• @Short-Story.me: “When The Table Turns” by Jeffery T. Ford [Fantasy]
• @Short-Story.me: “Final Thoughts” by Wayne Thoden [Horror]
• Silver Blade #14 – Spring 2012:
  • “Bad Samarian” by Frances Pauli [Science Fiction]
  • “The Tavern Wench of Venice” by Molly N. Moss [Fantasy]
  • “From Scheol My Soulfire Burns” by Milo James Fowler [Science Fiction]
  • “Homam, the Very Helpful Genie” by Nicholas Thurkettle [Fantasy]
  • “A Girl’s Best Friend” by John C. Tremblay [Fantasy]
• Strange Horizons – May 21, 2012:
  • “Tiger Stripes” by Nghi Vo [Fantasy]
• @Weird Fiction Review: “Replacements” by Lisa Tuttle [Dark Fantasy]
• @Weird Fiction Review: “Leng” by Marc Laidlaw [Horror]
• @World SF Blog: “The Portal Plague” by Dinesh Rao [Science Fiction]
• @Author’s Site: “Turbulence” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Frequent Flyers]

Written – Serialized

• @Author’s Site: “Grim Tides (22. Breaking Bread)” by T.A. Pratt [Urban Fantasy]

Audio

• Beware the Hairy Mango #119 – The Cake Plague [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #120 – Frankenstein’s Warm-Up [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #121 – Soapslut [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #122 – Disengagement Ring [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Flash Pulp #200 – The Death of Ruby [Fantasy]
• Flash Pulp Guest-isode #7 – “Pilling” by Rich the Time Traveler [Pulp]
• PodCastle Miniature #69 – “Wolves”  by José Luis Zárate, translated by Bernardo Fernandez [Fantasy]
• PodCastle #209 – “Lila the Werewolf” by Peter S. Beagle [Fantasy]
• Pseudopod #282 – Flash On The Borderlands XI – Fearful Fashions [Horror]
• Toasted Cake #21 – “The George Solution” by Brian Dolton

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fantasy Collection]
  • Gabriel: Zero Point (Evan Gabriel Trilogy) by Steve Umstead [Science Fiction Adventure Novella – Prequel to the Evan Gabriel Trilogy]
  • “Ginger’s Marble” by Erik Gustafson [Horror Short Story]
  • Nolander (Emanations) by Becca Mills [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
  • One by One by Phil Tucker [Apocalyptic Novel]
  • “Relationship Status” by David Wailing [Science Fiction Short Story]
• @Project Gutenberg:
  • Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant [Collection – Fantasy and Mainstream Short Fiction]
  • Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by David Wyllie [Weird Novella]
  • Tales of Space and Time by H. G. Wells [Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection]
• @Smashwords:
  • Five Bullets by K. Writerly [Supernatural Novelette]
  • I am Morte by Elyse Draper [Horror Novelette]
  • The Red Penny Papers – Spring 2012 [Sensationalist and Fantastical Fiction Magazine]
  • “Yew Manor” by Alan Loewen [Contemporary Fantasy Short Story]

Novel Excerpts

• @Baen: Sample Chapters from Queen of Wands by John Ringo [Monster Noir Thriller]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo [Fantasy]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Among Others by Jo Walton [Fantasy]

Other

• @Tor: “Could a Rendezvous With Rama Movie Capture the Scientific Wonder of the Book?” by John Bonner [Comic]