Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 6/24/2013

The mighty QuasarDragon will not yield. (loads of links to free books)

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Aphelion #174.17 – June 2013
2. Baen has the 2013 winning story from the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Competition
3. 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)
4. I’ll be catching up with Patrick Marsh’s post-apocalyptic serial, The Greenland Diaries, with one week’s worth of diaries every Saturday
5. 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]
  • Day One
  • Day Two
  • Day Three
  • Day Four
  • Day Five
  • Day Six
  • Day Seven

Audio

• @Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: [Horror]
  • “Faces”, Adapted by Christina Cross
  • “Swallow” by Mateo Hellion
• 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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