Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 6/24/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Aphelion #174.17 – June 2013
- Baen has the 2013 winning story from the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Competition
- I wrap up the first chapter of After The Fires Went Out: Coyote with Part 4 of 4 – Day Four (Chapter Two will be coming in August)
- I’ll be catching up with Patrick Marsh’s post-apocalyptic serial, The Greenland Diaries, with one week’s worth of diaries every Saturday
- WMG Publishing has its first audio fiction podcast, a story from Dean Wesley Smith
Written
- Aphelion #174.17 – June 2013: [Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine]
- “The Plague Merchants” by Kurt Heinrich Hyatt [Science Fiction]
- “Forever” by Kat Dysart [Fantasy]
- “Dimensional Shift” by E.S. Strout [Science Fiction]
- “Soul Mates” by D.C. Plump [Fantasy]
- “The Demon Whitefish” by Jordan Moureau [Fantasy]
- “The Pool” by Lester Curtis [Fable]
- “Escape of the Fire Demon” by Mike Phillips [Fantasy]
- “Heaven Falls” by Craig Wesson [Science Fiction]
- “The Seventh Folding of Willow Sprite” by Marjorie Kaye [Science Fiction]
- “No Further” by Matthew Acheson [Horror]
- @Baen:
- “The Lamplighter Legacy” by Patrick O’Sullivan [Science Fiction]
- “Seven Miles” by T.C. McCarthy [Science Fiction]
- @Buzzy Mag: “We’re All Super Here” by Michaele Jordan [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “I’ll Leave The Light On” by Patricia Russo [Magic Realism]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “The Diversity of Life” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Does Best in Ordinary Garden Soil” by Sarah Crysl Akhtar [Fairy Tale Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “The Floor That Creaked” by Adam Sear [Horror Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: Chapter One Excerpt from After The Fires Went Out: Coyote by Regan Wolfrom – Part 4 of 4 – Day Four [Post Apocalyptic]
- @Author’s Site: The Greenland Diaries by Patrick Marsh – Week One: [Post Apocalyptic]
Audio
- @Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: [Horror]
- Escape Pod #401 – “Growing Up Human” by Claudine Griggs [Science Fiction]
- Pseudopod #339 – “The End-Of-The-World Pool” by Scott M. Roberts [Horror]
- Tales To Terrify #76 – “Dolls” by Drake Vaughn and “Creepdoll” by Gareth Stack [Horror]
- @WMG Publishing: “Neighborhoods” by Dean Wesley Smith [Near Future Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- The Gift of Fury (The Count Albritton Series) by Richard Jackson [Urban Fantasy Novel]
- Honor of the Tome (First book in the Dragon Keepers series) by Bruce Goldwell [Middle Grade / YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Nightmare Within by Glen Krisch [Horror Novel]
- “The Runner: A Silo Story” (Part 1) by WJ Davies [Science Fiction Short Story – First of Series]
- Xenofreak Nation, Book One: XBestia by Melissa Conway [Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- @Project Gutenberg: Gladiator by Philip Wylie [Science Fiction Novel – from 1930]
Excerpts
- @Author’s Site: Chapter One Excerpt from After The Fires Went Out: Coyote by Regan Wolfrom – Part 4 of 4 – Day Four [Post Apocalyptic]
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