Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 1/08/2013
Please… I just need all of you to stay calm. We have a veritable heap of Free Fiction crowding over the retention wall, and we all need to work together to release the buildup slowly. So today we’ll have some offerings, and tomorrow some more, and so on until we clear through this stupendous slag of speculative storytelling.
(Don’t blame me for the excess of free fiction for your enjoyment… blame Dave Tackett and his oh-so-easy-to-steal links from QuasarDragon.)
Also… for those of you who are hoping to see if my upcoming post-apocalyptic series, After The Fires Went Out, will crash and burn, or soar and… uh… burn, you can enter on Goodreads for a chance for a free copy of the Paperback for Book One: Coyote.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Quarterlies! Abyss & Apex #45 – 1st Quarter 2013
- Quarterlies! Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #15
- Quarterlies! Kaleidotrope Winter 2013
Written
- Abyss & Apex #45 – 1st Quarter 2013:
- “Heartland” by Crystal Koo
- “Acrimony Grout” by Jay Caselberg
- “The Shadow Artist” by Ruth Nestvold
- “And Our Lady Splendor” by Matthew Wuertz
- “The Third Attractor” by Mjke Wood
- “Grampy Cybercop” by J.P. Boyd [Flash]
- @Anotherealm: “The Commoner and the Queen” by Barton Paul Levenson [Fantasy]
- Apex #44 – January 2013:
- “The Patrician” by Tansy Rayner Roberts [Fantasy]
- “Trixie and the Pandas of Dread” by Eugie Foster [Fantasy]
- “The Performance Artist” by Lettie Prell [Science Fiction]
- @Aurora Wolf: “When Grandma Came to Tea” by Frances Gow [Science Fiction]
- @Baen: “The True Story of Morganther’s Run” by David D. Levine [Science Fiction]
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #111 – December 27, 2012: (also available in MOBI, EPUB, PDF)
- “‘His Crowning Glory’: a new tale of the Antique Lands” by Noreen Doyle [Fantasy]
- “The Giants of Galtares” by Sue Burke [Fantasy]
- @Black Gate: “Seven Kings” by John R. Fultz [Fantasy]
- @Black Gate: “The Tea-Maker’s Task” by Aaron Bradford Starr [Fantasy]
- @Buzzy Mag: “Corentin the Divine” by Eric M. Bosarge [Horror]
- Clarkesworld #76 – January 2013:
- “Driftings” by Ian McDonald [Speculative Fiction] (also available in audio)
- “Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon” by Helena Bell [Science Fiction]
- “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]
- @The Colored Lens: “The Transfiguration of Vincent” by Ana-Maria Moloni [Urban Fantasy]
- @Cosmos: “Titans Of Camp Four” by Brian Trent [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Death Before Dishonor” by Shannon Leight [Science Fiction]
- @Eclipse Online: “The Memcordist” by Lavie Tidhar [Science Fiction]
- @Enchanted Conversation: “Bratty Tessa” by Candace L. Barr [Fairy Tale]
- @Enchanted Conversation: “The Clever, Wicked Girl” by Jazz Sexton [Fairy Tale]
- @GigaNotoSaurus: “Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree” by Christopher Reynaga [Fantasy] (also available in EPUB)
- Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #15:
- “Dusts of War” by Ben Godby [Fantasy]
- “Shadows and Hellfire” by R. Michael Burns [Fantasy]
- “Kingdom of Graves” by David Charlton [Fantasy]
- @Interstellar Fiction: “Alms Race” by Deborah Walker [Science Fiction]
- @Interstellar Fiction: “The Great Equalizer” by Jakob Drud [Science Fiction]
- Kaleidotrope Winter 2013:
- “This Is Not a Metaphor” by Christie Yant
- “Remembering the Days That Hurt Us” by Crystal Lynn Hilbert
- “Necronaut” by Corey Mariani
- “The October Witch” by Francesca Forrest
- “Wetwork” by Brendan Detzner
- “How I Found My One True Love and Saved the World from Ruin” by Russ Colson
- “Before the Blood” by T.D. Edge
- @Kasma SF: “Consequences of a Clockwork Theology” by C. J. Paget [Science Fiction]
- @Legend of the Five Rings: “Scenes from the Empire” – #31 by Robert Denton & Seth Mason [Fantasy]
- @Legend of the Five Rings: “Small Choices” by Yoon Ha Lee [Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed: “Lázaro y Antonio” by Marta Randall [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers” by Sarah Langan [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “How I Learned to Love My Clones” by Folly Blaine [Science Fiction]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “Evaporation” by Justin Short [Science Fiction]
- @The New Yorker: “Shirley Temple Three” by Thomas Pierce [Science Fiction]
- @Nightmare: “Foul Weather” by Daniel H. Wilson [Horror] (also available in audio)
- @Short-Story.me: “World’s Best Zombie Slayer” by Paul Miller [Horror]
- @Short-Story.me: “Cannibalistic Freaks” by Caleb Stratton [Horror]
- @Weird Fiction Review: “Ajantala, the Noxious Guest” by Amos Tutuola [Fantasy]
- @Weird Tales: “The Darkness at Table Rock Road” by Danielle Tunstall [Horror]
- @The WiFiles: “The Reluctant Soul” by Tala Bar [Fantasy]
- @The WiFiles: “NORM” by Asher Wismer [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Love and Justice” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “Space Fever” by Paul McAuley [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Time Cop” by Bob Newbell
- “Intoki” by Helstrom
- “Pan-Galactic Travel Agency” by Desmond Hussey
- “It’s The Little Things” by Clint Wilson
- “Suriel” by Jae Miles
- “Conscious Feedback” by Patricia Stewart
- “Game Changer” by Desmond Hussey
- “Broken Things” by Adrian Berg
- “Red Jizo” by James McGrath
- “A.I. of the Beholder” by Duncan Shields
- @Daily Science Fiction:
- “The Hades Hotline” by Alex Petri [Fantasy Flash]
- “Ivy Rose” by Dan Hart [Science Fiction Flash]
- “In The White of the Snow” by Mark Patrick Lynch [Fairy Tale Flash]
- “Life in Space” by Leslie Jane Anderson [Science Fiction Flash]
- “The Race” by Sadie Mattox [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction:
- “A Neodymium Christmas” by Chris Behrsin [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Ethics Alone” by Corrie Garrett [Science Fiction Flash]
- Kazka Press #2.5 – January 2013:
- “Brane Surgery” by David L Clements [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Act of Penance” by Michael Haynes [Fantasy Flash]
- “Higher Walls, Sharper Wire” by Lyn Thorne-Alder [Fantasy Flash]
- “The Beholder of Io” by Linda Palund [Science Fiction Flash]
- “The Hum of Refuge” by Anna Ilona Mussmann [Fantasy Flash]
- @Nature: “First Foot” by Deborah Walker [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Weirdyear: “Will Hug for Food” by Crowerd Robinson [Weird Flash]
- @Yesteryear: “Ewan Dools” by Beth J. Whiting [Fantasy Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Kat and Mouse: Guns For Hire: Ties That Bind by Abner Senires: [Cyberpunk]:
- @Paizo: Thieves Vinegar by Kevin Andrew Murphy: [Fantasy]
- @Silver Blade: The Guild of Swordsmen by Kristin Janz: [Fantasy]
Audio
- @Beam Me Up:
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “Seeking The Great Raymundo” by Jamie Lackey [Fantasy]
- Beware the Hairy Mango #144 – “Barstool Softener” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Mang — oh, my!]
- @Clarkesworld: “Sweet Subtleties” by Lisa L Hannett [Fantasy]
- @Clarkesworld: “Driftings” by Ian McDonald [Speculative Fiction]
- Drabblecast #267 – “Postapocalypsemas” by Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw [Science Fantasy]
- Dunesteef #138 – “Secret Santa” by Josh Roseman [Fantasy]
- Escape Pod #375 – “Marley and Cratchit” by David Steffen [Christmas]
- Escape Pod #376 – “Shutdown” by Corry L. Lee [Science Fiction]
- Every Day Fiction Podcast #98 – “Cold Grey” by Jessica George [Fantasy Flash]
- @Lightspeed: “Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers” by Sarah Langan [Fantasy]
- @Nightmare: “Foul Weather” by Daniel H. Wilson [Horror]
- PodCastle #240 – “Seeking Captain Random” by Vylar Kaftan [Fantasy]
- Pseudopod #314 – “What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night” by Michael Marshall Smith [Horror]
- Tales To Terrify #51 – Thomas Smith [Horror]
- Toasted Cake #52 – “Bad Elf” by Samuel Montgomery Blinn [Fantasy Flash]
- Toasted Cake #53 – “Mother Ship” by Caroline M. Yoachim [Science Fiction]
Audio – Serialized
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Afterlives: [Fantasy]
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Fatal Girl, Episode 5 [Fantasy – Mature Content]
- StarShipSofa #270 – Alec Nevala Lee – Part 2 [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: THE MVP by Scott Sigler: [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Amador Lockdown by Coral Russell [Horror Novella]
- The Exodus (Dawn of Man) by Geoffrey Levson [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- “Gone” by Adam Light [Weird Short Story]
- Icarus Trilogy: [Space Opera]
- Murder of Crows by Kevin Kauffmann
- Phoenix Rising by Kevin Kauffmann
- Swan Song by Kevin Kauffmann
- Locked Within by Paul Anthony Shortt [Dark Urban Fantasy Novel]
- Manhattan Grimoire by Sandy DeLuca [Horror Novella]
- The Monster Within Idea by R. Thomas Riley [Horror Collection]
- Progeny by Patrick C. Greene [Horror Novel]
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #111 – December 27, 2012 [Fantasy Magazine – MOBI, EPUB, PDF]
- @GigaNotoSaurus: “Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree” by Christopher Reynaga [Fantasy – EPUB]
Excerpts
- Excerpts from Oz Reimagined, edited by John Joseph Adams [Fantasy]
