Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/7/2013

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I’ve been taking at liberty from the amazing Dave Tackett and his QuasarDragon. You should, too.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Apex Magazine #51 – August 2013
2. Lightspeed has a science fiction story from Yoon Ha Lee
3. Kristine Kathryn Rusch presents one of her stories, a time travel mystery

Written

• Apex Magazine #51 – August 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “Victimless Crimes” by Charlie Jane Anders [Science Fiction]
  • “A Matter of Shapespace” by Brian Trent [Science Fiction]
  • “Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster” by Christopher Barzak [Fantasy]
  • Audio: “The Face of Heaven So Fine” by Kat Howard [Speculative Fiction]
• @The Colored Lens: “The Land of Dreams” by Kate O’Connor [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed:
  • “The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]
  • “Catamounts” by Marc Laidlaw [Fantasy]
• @Phantasmacore: “Procedural Generation” by Tom Graham [Science Fiction]
• @Short-Stories.me: “A Helping Hand” by Rachel Anne Sloan [Horror]
• @Author’s Site: “Blood Trail” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Time Travel Mystery]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Djedi’s Device” by Jae Miles [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Super-Parents Last All Childhood Long” by Erica L. Satifka [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction: “A Song Not Fully Sung” by Beth Cato [Science Fiction Flash]

Written – Micro

• @MicroSFF:
  

  “So annoying!”
  “Yeah! Every time! Damn sailors!”
  I look at the wrecked ship and flick my tail.
  “Let’s find some other rocks to sing from.”
  (via twitter)

Written – Serialized

• @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 4 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
• @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 10 – The Secrets of Magic: [Epic Fantasy]
  • “How Monsters Work”
  • “The Also Truth”

Audio

• @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Atomic Julie’s Glactic Bedtime Stories #10 – “Accidental Death” by Peter Baily [Science Fiction – from 1959]
• Apex Magazine Podcast #2 – “The Face of Heaven So Fine” by Kat Howard [Speculative Fiction]
• Escape Pod #407 – “Mono No Aware” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed: “The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Ghost in the Machine (Corwint Central Agent Files) by C.E. Kilgore [Science Fiction Romance Novel – First of Series]
  • Give Me – A Tale of Wyrd and Fae (Tethers #1) by LK Rigel [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Twin-Bred by Karen A. Wyle [Science Fiction Novel]

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