Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 6/18/2013

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Regan Wolfrom in Free Fiction // 0 Comments

Don’t forget to spend some quality time and space with Dave Tackett’s Quasar Dragon! Now with free cheese*!

* – cheese may be virtual and/or undescribed

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

Mad Scientist Journal and Toasted Cake have teamed up to release a K.G. Jewell story in written and audio formats
Perihelion June 2013
Charles Stross posts a “missing link” short story for his Saturn’s Children / Neptune’s Brood universe.

Written

@AE: “Put Out Every One” by Rich Larson [Science Fiction]
@Book View Cafe: “Prophesy In Shadows” by Leah Cutter [Fantasy]
@Mad Scientist Journal: “Hazelwitch vs. Hazelwitch” by K.G. Jewell [Fantasy] (also available in audio at Toasted Cake)
Perihelion June 2013: [Science Fiction Magazine]
- “19th in Love” by Gerard Mulligan
- “Nelay and the Blunt” by Clint Spivey
- “Fletcher’s Mountains” by Michael Hodges
- “Robert and Sarah, Across the Multiverse” by Matthew S. Dent
- “Boccaccio in Outer Space” by Chet Gottfried
- “Invoking Fire” by Guy Stewart
- “Seven Seconds” by Charles Payseur
- “Malware” by Simon Kewin
- “Coming of AGE” by Bob Sojka
- “A Journey Through the Wormhole” by Brian Biswas
@The WiFiles: “The Body in Question” by Charles Bush [Fantasy]
@Author’s Site: “Bit Rot” by Charles Stross [Science Fiction] (also available as eBook)

Written – Flash

@365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Empathy Test” by George R. Shirer
- “Franny” by Bronwyn Seward
- “I Just Want My Dreams Back” by James McGrath
@Daily Science Fiction: “Jumping Into The Sky” by Samantha Murray [Contemporary Fantasy Flash]
@Quantum Muse: “The Kay-Ram Glossi” by Richard Tornello [Fantasy Flash]

Written – Serialized

@Black Gate: The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells – Part Three [Fantasy]
@HiLobrow: Theodore Savage by Cicely Hamilton – Chapter 15 [Science Fiction Novel – from 1922]
@Legend of the Five Rings: Sins of the Father by Robert Denton – Part 5 [Fantasy]
@Legend of the Five Rings: There Will Be Blood by Shawn Carman, Seth Mason, & Robert Denton – Part 2 [Fantasy]

Audio

Beware the Hairy Mango #184 – “Heirloom” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [MangoRoadshow]
Cast of Wonders #83 – “The Dictionary’s Apprentice” by Sandra M. Odell [YA Fantasy]
@Clarkesworld: “Free-Fall” by Graham Templeton [Science Fiction]
Every Day Fiction Podcast #122 – “The Old Man and the Safe” by Peter Wood [Science Fiction]
Every Photo Tells #119 – “Uncle Zapf” by Harris Tobias [Science Fiction]
Journey Into #71 – “Night Waking” by Benjamin Rosenbaum [Dark Science Fiction]
Radio Drama Revival #335 – “Swordspoint” by Ellen Kushner [Fantasy]
Toasted Cake #75 – “Hazelwitch vs. Hazelwitch” by K.G. Jewell [Fantasy]

Audio – Serialized

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

@Amazon:
- Farro (Farro and Sulfur) by Areanna [YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- “Symbiosis” by J.A. Konrath [Science Fiction Adventure Short Story]
- Takers by Chris Davis [Urban Fantasy Novel]
- Target: Earth by Cheryl L. Cholley [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- Thrall (The Daughters Of Lilith) by Jennifer Quintenz [YA Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
@Author’s Site: “Bit Rot” by Charles Stross [Science Fiction Short Story – EPUB, MOBI]

Novel Excerpts

@Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Extract from Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence [Fantasy]
@Tor: Excerpt from The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon [YA Horror]