Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 9/4/2013

Supra thanks to Dave Tackett and his QuasarDragon for keeping me up to date with the September rush of new fiction!

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Apex Magazine #52 – September 2013
2. Crossed Genres #9 – September 2013 – Deadline
3. New Myths #24 – September 1, 2013
4. Quantum Muse September 2013
5. SQ Mag #10 – 1st September, 2013

Written

• @Anotherealm: “Shake” by J. Michael Shell [Speculative Fiction]
• Apex Magazine #52 – September 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “Someone Like You” by Margaret Ronald [Science Fiction]
  • “Turning the Whisper” by Anaea Lay [Science Fiction]
  • “The Boy Who Loved Death” by Hal Duncan [Dark Fantasy]
  • “Body Language” by Mary Robinette Kowal [Science Fiction]
  • Excerpt: I Can Transform You: The Carmillon by Maurice Broaddus [Post-Apocalyptic Steampunk Excerpt]
• Crossed Genres #9 – September 2013 – Deadline: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “Depth of Perception” by D.A. D’Amico
  • “A Quest For the Vulture Gods” by Melissa Yuan-Innes
  • “The Wind Harp” by Athena Andreadis
• @Kasma SF: “The Glass Tunnel” by Tim W. Boiteau [Science Fiction]
• @Legend of the Five Rings: “Scenes from the Empire” by Seth Mason, Nancy Sauer, and Shawn Carman [Shared World Fantasy Vignettes]
• @Lightspeed:
  • “The Schrödinger War” by D. Thomas Minton [Science Fiction]
  • “Suzanne Delage” by Gene Wolfe [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
• New Myths #24 – September 1, 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “A Slender Darkness” by D. A. D’Amico
  • “The Hidalgo’s Domain” by Thomas Canfield
  • “Cerebral Vortex” by Sean Hazlett
  • “Butterfly Weather” by Hannah Lackoff
• Quantum Muse September 2013: [Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine]
  • “Eye into the Open” by Harry J. Bentham
  • “Owl Head Lake” by Harris Tobias
  • “The Thirteenth Knight” by Jeromy Henry
  • “Wizards Like Gods” by Alex Mair
• @QuasarDragon: “Ghosts of Chaacmol” by Anthony J. Lorenz [Ghost Story – from 1919]
• SQ Mag #10 – 1st September, 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “Shoe Shine” by Robert Datson [Dark Fantasy]
  • “That Blasts the Roots of Trees is My Destroyer” by David Halpert [Dystopian Science Fiction]
  • “Drunks” by Michael C Schutz-Ryan [Supernatural Horror]
  • “Mr Strawn and the Book” by Morgan Knight [Steampunk]
  • Serialization: Intangible by A.A. Garrison – Part 5 of 6 [Fantasy – Serialized]
  • Flash Fiction: “Visiphorical Art” by Michelle King [Supernatural Horror Flash]
• @Strange Horizons: “You Have to Follow the Rules” by Ada Hoffmann [Speculative Fiction] (also available in audio)
• @Author’s Site: “Controlling the Sword” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Historical Fantasy]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Do Me a Favor”
  • “The Morrow Upon Midday” by Timothy Marshal-Nichols
  • “Plain as Plain Can Be” by C.L. Guerrieri
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Three Weddings and an Objection” by M. M. Domaille [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Quantum Muse: “Eric Is Better Dead” by Alex Mair [Science Fiction Flash]
• @SQ Mag: “Visiphorical Art” by Michelle King [Supernatural Horror Flash]

Written – Micro

• @shortstor: Very Short Stories:
  

  He looked at me, pupils blazing. I couldn’t hold his stare, couldn’t help but look down and gag, the smell of burned student in my nostrils.
  (via twitter)

Written – Serialized

• @The Colored Lens: The Flower Garden by Michael Shone – Part 1 [Science Fiction]
• @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 8 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
• @SQ Mag: Intangible by A.A. Garrison – Part 5 of 6 [Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: The Greenland Diaries by Patrick Marsh – Day 83 [Post Apocalyptic]
• @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 12: The Magical Planet Earth – “The Happy Balloon” [Epic Fantasy]

Audio

• Apex Podcast #3 – “Someone Like You” by Margaret Ronald [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed: “Suzanne Delage” by Gene Wolfe [Fantasy]
• PodCastle #76 – “Quiet Death Machines” by Gillian Daniels [Fantasy]
• Protecting Project Pulp #58 – “Strange Eden” by Philip K. Dick [Science Fiction – from 1954]
• @Strange Horizons: “You Have to Follow the Rules” by Ada Hoffmann [Speculative Fiction]

Audio – Serialized

• @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Atomic Julie’s Glactic Bedtime Stories #13 – The Deadly City by Ivar Jorgenson (Paul W. Fairman) – Part 2 of 3 [Science Fiction – from 1953]
• @Gypsy Audio: Fortuna by A. J. Clarkson – Episode 1 [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Bait (Order of the Spirit Realm) by K.C. Blake [YA Urban Fantasy – First of Series]
  • Catalyst (A Tethered Novel) by Jennifer Snyder [Urban Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Cinderella’s Secret Diary (Book 1: Lost) by Ron Vitale [YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Erin The Fire Goddess: The Beginning by Lavinia Urban [YA Fantasy Novel]
  • Faith Creation: All Lies Revealed by Christine Dougherty [Psychological Horror Novel]
  • Forever by Eve Newton [Paranormal Fantasy – First of Series] (also available at Barnes & Noble)
  • Jake West – Warriors of the Heynai (The Jake West Trilogy #2) by M J Webb [Epic Fantasy Novel – Second of Series]
  • Slaves of Valhalla (The Prometheus Wars 2) by Luke Romyn [Science Fiction Adventure Novel – Second of Series]
  • Varangian: The Stone of Babylon (The Varangian Trilogy Pt.1) by Sabine K. Atkins [Historical Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
• @Barnes & Noble:
  • Felled by Ark by Aaron Lee [Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Novel]
  • Forever by Eve Newton [Paranormal Fantasy – First of Series]
  • Just One Day by Jacob Prytherch [Zombie Novelette]
  • “Me Zombie, You Food” by C. M. Bratton [Zombie Short Story]

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

• @September 1st: Celebrating the Births . . . Edgar Rice Burroughs, Martha Wells, Timothy Zahn, S. A. Swann, and Brad Linaweaver

Excerpts

• @Apex Magazine: Excerpt from I Can Transform You by Maurice Broaddus [Post-Apocalyptic Steampunk]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger [YA Steampunk]