Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 6/14/2013

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #123 – June 13, 2013
2. A short story from Cory Doctorow
3. Silver Blade #18 – May 2013

Written

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #123 – June 13, 2013: [Fantasy Magazine] (also available as eBook)
  • “Cold, Cold War” by Ian McHugh
  • “A Sixpenny Crossing” by Don Allmon
  • Audio: “The Penitent” by M. Bennardo
• @Boing Boing: “By his things will you know him” by Cory Doctorow [Science Fiction]
• Silver Blade #18 – May 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “An Honorable Aunt” by Therese Arkenberg
  • “The Trial of Bernadette Fabrique” by Sam Barnhart
  • “Kuiper Court” by S.E. Sever
  • “In Excelsis” by Christopher Burt
  • “Deep in the Woods” by Joseph Sale
  • “Customer Support” by Adam Gaylord
  • “Level 7” by Shahid Khan
• @Author’s Site: “Apt Road” by Shane Lindemoen [Science Fiction]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Mathmagicians” by Desmond Hussey [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “True Love” by Alex Shvartsman [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction: “She Smelled Pretty” by Kristi Charish [Horror Flash]
• @Flashes in the Dark: “Chessie” by Lindsey Beth Goddard [Horror Flash]
• @Nature: “Mortar flowers” by Jessica May Lin [Science Fiction Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 7: A World Without Magic – “Fates and the Nuclear Bombs” [Epic Fantasy]

Audio

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies Podcast #106 – “The Penitent” by M. Bennardo [Fantasy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • The 13th by Shadow Stevens [Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
  • “The After/Life” (The After/Life Saga) by Vardan Partamyan [Dystopian Short Story]
  • The False Prince (Fall Of A King) by James Fuller [Sword & Sorcery Novel – First of Series]
  • Here Lies Death by Harlan Vaughn [Urban Fantasy Novel]
  • Heroes of the Fallen by David J. West [Sword & Sorcery Novel]
  • Never Too Far by Thomas Christopher [YA Dystopian Novel]
  • Reapers by A.J. Sloan [Urban Fantasy Novel]
  • Thy Kingdom Fall (After Eden Series, Book #1) by Austin Dragon [Science Fiction Adventure Novel – First of Series]
  • The Truth Beyond the Sky (The Epic of Aravinda) by Andrew M. Crusoe [Science Fiction Novel]
  • The Undesirable (Undesirable Series) by S. Celi [YA Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #123 – June 13, 2013 [Fantasy – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]

Novel Excerpts

• @Gollancz: Excerpt from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo – Chapter 1 [YA Dark Fantasy]
• @Tor: Excerpt from On the Razor’s Edge by Michael Flynn [Science Fiction]

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