Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/31/2013

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Buzzy Mag has an urban fantasy story from Ken Altabef
2. Daily Science Fiction has a magic realism story from Rachel Halpern
3. If you haven’t tried Beware the Hairy Mango, you’d better check yourself for a pulse. Or check yourself in for a full medical. Or just listen to it and I’ll stop.

Written

• @Buzzy Mag: “Unremembered, Unforgotten” by Ken Altabef [Urban Fantasy]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “A Change of Heart” by Rachel Halpern [Magic Realism]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Oracle” by Desmond Hussey [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction: “Sex God” by Nik Perring [Surreal Flash]
• @Weirdyear: “Albeit of Salt” by Donal Mahoney [Weird Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @HiLobrow: The Man with Six Senses by Muriel Jaeger – Chapter 8 of 20 [Science Fiction Romance – from 1927]
• @Author’s Site: The Greenland Diaries by Patrick Marsh: [Post Apocalyptic]
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Audio

• Beware the Hairy Mango #189 – “Bottom Out” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Monotone Mango Madness]
• @Clarkesworld: “Cilia-of-Gold” by Stephen Baxter [Science Fiction]
• Escape Pod #411 – “Loss, With Chalk Diagrams” by E. Lily Yu [Science Fiction]
• Every Photo Tells #129 – “Ginnie Dare: Troubled Waters” by Scott Roche [Science Fiction]
• Pseudopod #349 – “Apotropaics” by Norman Partridge [Horror]
• Tales To Terrify #86 – “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster [Dark Fantasy]
• WMG Story Podcast – “The Thrill of the Hunt” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Black As Night (The Augmentamancer Chronicles) by Daniel Mckay [Contemporary Fantasy Novel with Comedy]
  • Black Sea Gods (Chronicle of Fu Xi) by Brian Braden [Historical Fantasy Novel]
  • Brainstorm (Daniel McMaster Series) by Gordon Kessler [Science Fiction Thriller Novel]
  • “Burning” (Demon Legacy) by J.M. Gregoire [Urban Fantasy Short Story]
  • Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark [YA Sword & Sorcery Novel]
  • Dimensional Shift: Waters of Babylon by Michelle Stone [Dystopian Novel – Second of Series]
  • >> More Free Dystopian / Post-Apocalyptic eBooks via The Post-Apocalyptic Link Roundup Post
  • Everwud – The Tree, The Boy & The Dog by Marilyn Dieckmann [Children’s Fantasy Novel]
  • The Guardian of Threshold (Threshold Series) by A.A. Volts [YA Paranormal Fantasy – First of Series]
  • The Lion And The Mouse by Emilia V. [Children’s Picture Book – Ages 4 to 8 – Folk Tales]
  • The Seventh Seal by J. Thorn [Horror Novel]
  • The Truth about Sharks and Pigeons by Matt Phillips [Contemporary Fantasy Novel with Comedy]
  • The Winged Trilogy by Heather Allen Dencker: [Paranormal Fantasy Series]
    • Winged Descent (#1)
    • Winged Decision (#2)
• @Project Gutenberg: The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood [Dark Fantasy Novel]

QuasarDragon Birthdays – Free Fiction from authors on the anniversary of their birth

• August 29th: Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Renee Carter Hall, and Jenn Reese
• August 30th: Mary Shelley

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