Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

Ignyte Award finalist podcast of short stories from the Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, the World Fantasy and Hugo Award finalist online magazine of literary adventure fantasy. For sixteen years of literary adventure fantasy and over 350 podcast episodes, visit our website at beneath-ceaseless-skies.com.

BCS 340: Three Drops in the River

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #418 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.It was fair enough, but Alor couldn't say he fancied sleeping on a stone bridge with a lion and no naiads below.More info »

10-17
27:57

BCS 338: Nine Tenths of the Law

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Someone yelling inside my head gives me a migraine for the rest of the day.More info »

10-03
01:12:00

BCS 339: Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn

By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.The necromancers' wine wasn't merely dark; it sat in the cup like glistening black oil.More info »

10-03
31:11

BCS 337: After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland

By Max Franciscovich, from Issue #416 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.We are what he made us; you must know this.More info »

09-19
36:29

BCS 335: Conversation with a Dragon

By Cat Rambo, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Cat Rambo, the author.“I don’t know if anyone would have gone in search after this dragon if it hadn’t been for the girl.”More info »

08-22
20:42

BCS 336: At the Stopping Place

By Grace Seybold, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Jinnie, since it was clear no-one was paying attention to her, darted out to scrub away the human’s footprints.More info »

08-22
20:32

BCS 334: The Wicks Whisper

By Emily C. Skaftun, from Issue #411 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Even so, I’m tempted to light my new soul candle. Mom.More info »

07-11
23:47

BCS 333: An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor

By Cara Masten DiGirolamo, from Issue #409 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The hole would not have lingered with me if I had not once before seen a map marred with an unexpected hole that aligned with a place that had developed strange properties.More info »

06-13
21:08

BCS 332: Gods and Monsters and Brothers

By J. Bridges, from Issue #407 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He was a shell of his former self by the time I found him.More info »

05-16
23:52

BCS 331: A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #406 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I could have refused. A year earlier, two years, I would have.More info »

05-02
24:35

BCS 330: A Reflection of Sun

By Liana Richmond, from Issue #405 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore.He had taken hold of her, shooing away the fish pulling off bits of her softened flesh, and had guided her to shore.More info »

04-18
24:55

BCS 329: The Coffee of Torcat

By Devin Miller, from Issue #404 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore."I drank a cup of ordinary coffee once with the Archduke of Holal," Osa said to the girl. "I need to drink it again."More info »

04-04
18:37

BCS 328: The Dust Eater

By Adam Breckenridge, from Issue #403 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Ash may be ash, but it still has a soul, and the shreds of Offas that had been reborn in me sung to the ashes’ tune.More info »

03-21
40:41

BCS 327: Tell the King

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #401 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I imagine my King on the spaceship that would take us away from the only home we’ve ever known in search of a new one. Most of us will live, but the King will die.More info »

02-22
51:09

BCS 326: The Rug-Maker and the Wonder Collector

By Emily McIntyre, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.The black pupil—property of XCorp, almost human but not quite, recording every curly hair that falls over my face, every flutter of my breath, every tremble of my lips.More info »

02-15
13:21

BCS 325: Doctor Souvenir

By Elly Bangs, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.But what kind of weapon could possibly be made out of bittersweet memory?More info »

02-08
29:43

BCS 324: Willow Wood

By Linda Niehoff, from Issue #398 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Music like that doesn’t belong inside. It belongs to outside in the night. Quivering in the air with every crawling thing.More info »

01-11
21:32

BCS 323: What Will Bring You Home

By Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #396 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.At the table with you are three fairies, their clothing just as ridiculous and just as shimmering as your own.More info »

11-30
17:20

BCS 322: Something That Has Never Touched the Ground

By Marilyn Hope, from Issue #394 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Cat Rambo.Rang has wielded a bow since he was eight, and taking his aim at the King is a sleek and innate motion, like brushing Sunder's dark hair behind one ear to rest his lips on his temple.More info »

11-02
11:56

BCS 321: The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa

By Myna Chang, from Issue #393 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.My ghost is trapped in this bedchamber, much as I was in life.More info »

10-19
15:45

Alex O'Connell

Really excellent

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ipoopstandingup

kinda painful listen...

02-02 Reply

Nick Geffen

Astounding, balanced; captivating, poetic; moving, refreshing, and somehow classic too. Thank you, thank you, thank you! <3

11-27 Reply

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