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 351: Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth

By Kate Francia, from Issue #441 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She could do this simple thing: walk through her door.More info »

09-18
28:37

BCS 350: Postman, Soldier, Traitor

By Vijayalaxmi Samal, from Issue #439 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.There is nowhere else he could go. He will go where the letter takes him.More info »

08-28
39:11

BCS 349: Out of Draconia

By Alma Alexander, from Issue #436 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.That was why I did it. That was why, when she turned eleven, I said to her, “Go to Draconia. Look for your egg.”More info »

07-10
32:38

BCS 348: The Feather Tree

By KJ Kabza, from Issue #435 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Loory felt a corresponding restless within himself—a shifting, a re-opening, of places that felt both predestined and newly made.More info »

06-26
32:07

BCS 347: Unbeaten

By Grace Seybold, from Issue #432 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.I would be a sword no longer.More info »

05-15
19:01

BCS 346: The Tale of How You Were Born

By Eleanor Elizabeth Fog, from Issue #431 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Of all the follies I'd expected, this wasn’t one of them. “You want to carry this parcel that’s been dumped on you without having any say in the matter?”More info »

05-01
20:00

BCS 345: The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King

By Jelena Dunato, from Issue #429 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He approached Katarina in one smooth move, too fast for her eyes to follow. He smelled of wet leaves and dark forest earth.More info »

04-03
34:00

BCS 344: Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory

By Nicole L. Soper Gorden, from Issue #427 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But no visitor here would dare turn her in, whether they left with a cloud or not.More info »

03-06
28:53

BCS 343: Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows

By Somto Ihezue, from Issue #425 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Opeyemi Ogundiran.They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself.More info »

02-06
25:13

BCS 342: Half Drowned

By S.L. Harris, from Issue #423 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI can’t stand the thought of Annemarie flopped on the lake floor, the last thought stamped forever on her mind that no one would come for her.More info »

01-09
36:15

BCS 341: Speaking the Sun

By Thomas Bales, from Issue #421 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThey say that if I stop speaking, the sun will not rise.More info »

11-28
29:31

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

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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