Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 3/21/2013

After being informed by my wife that I was not allowed to do any “work” on our family vacation, I spent the past two weeks neglecting each and every one of you. So there’s a backlog that we’ll get through over the next four days. We’d better get started!

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Thanks to a note from Cattfish: The first issue of Galaxy’s Edge, edited by Mike Resnick
2. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #116 – March 7, 2013
3. Lovecraft eZine #22 – February 2013

Written

• @Apex: “Weaving Dreams” (revised) by Mary Robinette Kowal [Fantasy]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #116 – March 7, 2013: (also available as eBook)
  • “A Family for Drakes” by Margaret Ronald [Fantasy]
  • “Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes” by A.B. Treadwell [Fantasy]
• @Cosmos: “Soul Song” by Frankie Seymour [Science Fiction]
• @Eclipse Online: “Loss, with Chalk Diagrams” by E. Lily Yu [Science Fiction
• Galaxy’s Edge #1 – March 2013:
  • “The Shoulders of Giants” by Robert J. Sawyer [Science Fiction]
  • “Schrödinger’s Cathouse” by Kij Johnson [Science Fiction]
  • “Creator of the Cosmos Job Interview Today” by Nick DiChario [Science Fiction]
  • “Just a Second” by Lou J. Berger [Science Fiction]
  • “Act of God” by Jack McDevitt [Science Fiction]
  • “Requiem for a Druid” by Alex Shvartsman [Fantasy]
  • “The Bright Seas of Venus” by Stephen Leigh [Meta]
  • “The Spinach Can’s Son” by Robert T. Jeschonek [Surreal]
  • “Think Like a Dinosaur” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed: “The Bolt Tightener” by Sarena Ulibarri [Fantasy]
• @Lightspeed: “Three Days of Rain” by Holly Phillips [Science Fiction]
• Lovecraft eZine #22 – February 2013: [Lovecraftian Horror]
  • “The Dance” by Robin Spriggs
  • “Maybe the Stars” by Samantha Henderson
  • “The Pyramid Spider” by Simon Kurt Unsworth
  • “Powers of Air and Darkness” by Don Webb
  • “Verbapeutic” by Joe Nazare
  • “The Masked Messenger” by David Conyers & John Goodrich
• @Mad Scientist Journal: “Blood Tests, Types and Ties” by Kate Elizabeth [Vampires]
• @Nightmare: “The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins” by Molly Tanzer [Horror]
• @Strange Horizons: “Town’s End” by Yukimi Ogawa [Fantasy]
• @Tor: “Border Dogs: A SEAL Team 666 Adventure” by Weston Ochse [Fantasy]
• @Tor: “Terrain” by Genevieve Valentine [Steampunk Western]
• @Weird Fiction Review: “The Black Pool” by Frederick Stuart Greene [Horror]
• @The WiFiles: “Planet 239” by Jeremiah Sater [Science Fiction]
• @Author’s Site: “The Life and Deaths of Rachel Long” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Urban Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: “Sing” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
• @Author’s Site: “Three Vignettes” by Alastair Reynolds [Science Fiction]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Flip Man” by James Zahardis
  • “For The One Who Has Everything” by Xauri’EL Zwaan
  • “Ghost In The Machine” by Clint Wilson
  • “Self Defense” by Patricia Stewart
• @Daily Science Fiction:
  • “Hazel Tree” by Melissa Mead [Twisted Fairy Tale Flash]
  • “Hope, Shattered” by Brian R. McDowell [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction:
  • “The Day My Neighbor Amputated One of My Grandmother’s Limbs” by Chance Lee [Surreal Flash]
  • “The Nymph of Limantour” by J. J. Roth [Fantasy Flash]
  • “The Tattered Veil” by dj barber [Science Fiction Flash
  • “Violet Hill” by Sam Westreich [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Flashes in the Dark: [Horror Flash]
  
  • “Mr. Thompson’s Garden” by Brian J. Smith
  • “No Witness” by E.F. Schraeder
• @Nature: “Canopy of skulls” by Beth Cato [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Yesteryear: “The Storm” by Christopher Grey [Fantasy Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @Black Gate: The Sealord’s Successor by Aaron Bradford Starr – Part II [Fantasy]
• @The Colored Lens: Eight of Swords by Darja Malcolm-Clarke – Part 2 [Slipstream]
• @Galaxy’s Edge: Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye – Part 1 [Science Fiction]
• @Paizo: Bastard, Sword by Tim Pratt: [Fantasy]
  • Chapter One: Ill Met by Torchlight
  • Chapter Two: Serpent and Bow
  • Chapter Three: Rich Man’s Crusade

Audio

• @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes” by A.B. Treadwell [Fantasy]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #149 – “The Piñata Club” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Mangañata Grande]
• Cast of Wonders #70 – “A Song for the Season” by Eliza Hirsch [YA Fantasy]
• Drabblecast #274 – “Amid the Words of War” by Cat Rambo [Science Fiction]
• Escape Pod #386 – “Finished” by Robert Reed [Science Fiction]
• Journey Into #63 – “The Age-Old Question” by Christopher Munroe [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed: “The Bolt Tightener” by Sarena Ulibarri [Fantasy]
• PodCastle #250 – “Logic and Magic in the Time of the Boat Lift” by Cat Rambo and Ben Burgis [Fantasy]
• Pseudopod #324 – “Wings” by Nathaniel Lee [Horror]
• StarShipSofa #279 – Rachel Swirsky [Science Fiction]
• @Strange Horizons: “Town’s End” by Yukimi Ogawa [Fantasy]
• Tales To Terrify #61 – Renee Hall Copper Smith [Horror]
• Toasted Cake #62 – “The Cold Beyond the Pools” by Steven R. Stewart [Science Fiction]

Audio – Serialized

• @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Dick Dynamo the Fifth Dimensional Man! – Episode 1 – The Organic Nightmare [Science Fiction Comedy]
• @Author’s Site: The MVP by Scott Sigler: [Science Fiction]
  • Episode #21
  • Episode #22
  • Episode #23

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Agent of Change (Liaden Universe) by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller [Space Opera Novel]
  • How To Save The World: An Alien Comedy by Charles Fudgemuffin [Science Fiction Comedy Novel]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #116 – March 7, 2013 [Fantasy – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]
• @Project Gutenberg: The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum [Novel from Oz]

Excerpts

• @Gollancz: Extracts from Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins: [Alternate History / Fantasy]
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three