Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 3/1/2013

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Tor has “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen
2. Matthew Sanborn Smith‘s Beware the Hairy Mango is back with “The Slow and the Furious”
3. PodCastle has Cory Skerry‘s “My Dignity in Scars”
4. Another Cast of Characters excerpt from my post-apocalyptic novel (and ongoing dead horse), After The Fires Went Out: Coyote

Written

• @Tor: “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen [Gaslamp Fantasy]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Judgement Day” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Coin Op” by David Steffen [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction: “Radaba, Daughter of Rapunzel” by Marie Bacigalupo [Fantasy Flash]
• @Flashes in the Dark: “Mr. Yamamoto’s Fish Food” by Adam Walker [Horror Flash]

Audio

• Beware the Hairy Mango #148 – “The Slow and the Furious” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Mangopunk]
• PodCastle #249 – “My Dignity in Scars” by Cory Skerry [Fantasy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Cloak by James Gough [YA Fantasy Novel]
  • Origin by J.A. Konrath [Horror Adventure Novel]
  • The Taken: Celestial Blues by Vicki Pettersson [Urban Fantasy Novel – First Book of Series]
• @Project Gutenberg: A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novelette – from 1934]

Excerpts

• @Tor: Excerpt from Bloodfire Quest: The Dark Legacy of Shannara by Terry Brooks [Epic Fantasy]
• @Tor: Excerpt from The Wilful Eye by Isobelle Carmody [Re-imagined Fairy Tales]
• @Author’s Site: An Excerpt from After The Fires Went Out: Coyote by Regan Wolfrom – Cast of Characters: Kayla [Post-Apocalyptic]