Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/07/2014

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What’s Special About Today’s Free Fiction?

1. Apex Magazine #60 – May 2014
2. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #146 – May 01, 2014
3. Clarkesworld Magazine #92 – May 2014

Written

• @AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review: “The Best Puppy Ever” by Mary E. Lowd [Science Fiction]
• @Amazing Stories: “The Geno Virus” by R. K. Troughton [Science Fiction]
• Apex Magazine #60 – May 2014 [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “Falling Leaves” by Liz Argall [Dystopian Science Fiction]
  • “Not Smart, Not Clever” by E. Saxey [Science Fiction]
  • “Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won’t Be Missed” by Caroline M. Yoachim [Fantasy]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #146 – May 01, 2014 [Fantasy Magazine]
  • “The Dreams of Wan Li” by Andrea Stewart [Fantasy]
  • “The Lighthouse Keepers” by Nicole M. Taylor [Fantasy – also available in audio]
• @Black Treacle: “Black Thumb” by Michelle Ann King [Dark Fantasy]
• Clarkesworld Magazine #92 – May 2014 [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
  • “A Gift in Time” by Maggie Clark [Science Fiction]
  • “Beluthahatchie” by Andy Duncan [Science Fiction – from 1997]
  • “Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds” by E. Catherine Tobler [Science Fiction]
  • “Night of the Cooters” by Howard Waldrop [Science Fiction – from 1987]
  • “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel [Science Fiction – also available in audio]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Mitten Inspector” by Patricia Russo [Slipstream Flash]
• Escape Pod #445 – “Black Swan Oracle” by Ferrett Steinmetz [Science Fiction – also available in audio]
• @GigaNotoSaurus: “The Bulletproof” by John M. Shade [Fantasy – also available as eBook]
• @Lightspeed Magazine:
  • “A Tank Only Fears Four Things” by Seth Dickinson [Science Fiction – also available in audio]
  • “Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt” by Rachel Pollack [Fantasy]
• @Mad Scientist Journal: “Inside You” by Iulian Ionescu [Science Fiction]
• @Mythic Delirium: “Milkweed” by Cedar Sanderson [Fantasy]
• @Short-Story.me: “Veridian’s Log. Day 364” by Vela Damon [Science Fiction]
• @Splinter Universe: “Leaving Via Callia” by Alma Alexander [Speculative Fiction]
• @The Colored Lens: “If You Give a Girl a Blaster” by George S. Walker [Science Fiction]
• @The WiFiles: “In a Bubble” by Lara Alonso Corona [Time Travel]
• @Tor:
  • “The Madonna of the Abattoir” by Anne M. Pillsworth [Victorian Urban Fantasy]
  • “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert [Horror]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows:
  • “High Fliers” by Jae Miles [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Somebody Comes to Town” by Steve Smith [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Taffy” by Rachelle Shepherd [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Target Practice” by Steve Smith [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Time Bomb” by Bob Newbell [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Torture” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction:
  • “Burying a Child” by Steve Zisson [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “Darkness Becomes You” by Peter A Schaefer [Fantasy Flash]
  • “Nine Lives” by Callie Snow [Fantasy Flash]
  • “Ransomware” by John P. Murphy [Science Fiction Flash]
  • “The Vivisection of Sgt. Shane Eastwood” by Matt Mikalatos [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction: “De Profundis” by E. A. Farley [Fantasy Flash]
• @Nature: “An uncanny life” by Ryan Rubai [Science Fiction Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @Author’s Site: The Greenland Diaries by Patrick Marsh – Day 130 [Post-Apocalyptic Serialization]
• @madgeniusclub: Elf Blood by Sarah A. Hoyt – Chapter 20 [Fantasy Novel Serialization]
• @Omni Reboot: And Your Little Dog, Too by Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes – Part 1 of 4 [Serialized Science Fiction Novelette]
• @Robot and Raygun: Some We Eat and Some We Keep by Brent Knowles: [Science Fiction Serialization]
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5

Audio

• 19 Nocturne Boulevard Atomic Julie’s Galactic Bedtime Stories #28 – “Be It Ever Thus” by Robert Moore Williams [Science Fiction – from 1954]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies Podcast #126 – “The Lighthouse Keepers” by Nicole M. Taylor [Fantasy – also available as eBook]
• @Beware the Hairy Mango by Matthew Sanborn Smith: [MuchoMangoMayo begins!]
  • #206 – Cowlick
  • #207 – Stuffing Shells
  • #208 – Overcover
  • #209 – Pirate Radio
  • #210 – Emil’s Magic Wiener
  • #211 – Bean There, Egged That
• Cast of Wonders #123 – “Taxidermy and Other Dangerous Professions” by JR Johnson [YA Urban Fantasy]
• @Clarkesworld Magazine:
  • “Shining Armor” by Dominic Green [Science Fiction]
  • “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel [Science Fiction]
• Drabblecast #323 – “Missed Connection” by Michael Marshall Smith [Horror]
• Escape Pod #445 – “Black Swan Oracle” by Ferrett Steinmetz [Science Fiction]
• Every Day Fiction Podcast #168 – “Deprescience” by Mickey Hunt [Fantasy]
• Far Fetched Fables #3 – “Commando Bats” by Sherwood Smith and “Medusa” by Michael Cadnum by [Fantasy]
• @Lightspeed Magazine: “A Tank Only Fears Four Things” by Seth Dickinson [Science Fiction]
• Protecting Project Pulp #91 – “Black Amazon of Mars” by Leigh Brackett [Science Fantasy Adventure – from 1951]
• Pseudopod #384 – “The Old Traditions Are Best” by Paul Finch [Horror]
• Tales To Terrify #121 – Bram Stoker Award Show No 2 – “The Hunger Artist” by Lisa Mannetti and “Primal Tongue” by Michael Bailey by [Horror]
• Toasted Cake #105 – “Echo and Yankee” by Jon Arthur Kitson [Speculative Fiction]

Audio – Radio Dramas

• @Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod:
  • Escape – Earth Abides, Part 1 of 2″ [Post-Apocalyptic Radio Drama – from 1950]
  • Escape – Earth Abides, Part 2 of 2″ [Post-Apocalyptic Radio Drama – from 1950]
  • Lights Out –“Until Dead” [Horror Radio Drama – from 1943]
  • The Hall Of Fantasy –“The Cask Of Amontillado” [Horror – from 1954]
  • The Weird Circle –“The 4:15 Express” [Ghost Story Radio Drama – from 1944]
• @Relic Radio:
  • Molle Mystery Theater –“Burn, Witch, Burn” [Horror Radio Drama – from 1946]
  • The Chase –“The Sea Monster” [Weird Radio Drama – from 1953]
  • X Minus One –“Wherever You May Be” [Science Fiction Radio Drama – from 1956]

Audio – Serialized

• @Author’s Site: Nocturnal by Scott Sigler – Episode #28 [Horror Novel Serialization]
• @Journey Into…: #101 – Journey Into Space: Operation Luna by : [Science Fiction Serialization]
  • Part 10 of 12
  • Part 11 of 12
• @Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 46 –“Parade Day” [Fantasy Serial]

Free eBooks – Science Fiction

Extermination Day (A Post Apocalyptic Thriller) by William Turnage
Survivors of a deadly virus must time travel into the past and warn the world of the coming Apocalypse.
[Time Travel / Post-Apocalyptic Novel – First of Series – Amazon]

Free eBooks – Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian

Bunkers by Nicholas Antinozzi
When tragedy strikes and as the world begins to crumble around him, Mark SleepingBear decides that it’s high time to renovate his grandfather’s Cold War era fallout shelter. As conditions deteriorate, Mark struggles with the decision to share his bunker, should the need arise, with his neighbors.
[Post-Apocalyptic Novel – Amazon]

Poetry from the Silo (A Silo Story) by Thomas Robins
Sara Lancaster has been illegally hiding poetry on the silo servers for years. IT has discovered over twenty of her poems and must decide if Sara should be sent outside to clean.
[Post-Apocalyptic Short Story – Amazon]

Free eBooks – Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian – Young Adult

City of the Falling Sky (The Seckry Sequence Book 1) by Joseph Evans
When Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the greedy Endrin Corporation and relocated to the daunting metropolis of Skyfall City, he harbours resentment for the company and vows to get them back one day for taking away his home, his school and his friends.
[YA Dystopian Novel – First of Series – Amazon]

Free eBooks – Fantasy

Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry – A Wizard’s Guide to Survival in a World Where People Want to Kill You and Take Your Stuff by Joseph J. Bailey
So you want to be a wizard?
You know being a wizard is not all quests filled with high adventure, finding priceless treasure, warm adulation and reward, and uncovering newfound knowledge?
[Fantasy Humor Novella – Amazon]

Free eBooks – Horror

Awake in the Night by John C. Wright
The haunting tale of the Last Redoubt of Man and the end of the human race.
[Horror Novel – First of Series – Amazon]