Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By AnaMaria Curtis, from Issue #458 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The butcher spends his early mornings making contact with anyone who knows anyone who might be a hunter, who might know where he can find a fresh kill.More info »

By Alma Alexander, from Issue #456 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.He brought the Empress there to show the now-bejeweled tree when the leaves turned bronze in the autumn.More info »

By Justin Wesley Ferguson, from Issue #453 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Gerda set the dress aside and tried to do the same with the stirrings of dread in her stomach.More info »

By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #451 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.They should use those hours wisely, and not in seeking counsel—or worse, comfort—from a woman long dead.More info »

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #450 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine—she the ship recalls stories she never read of women and men in rivers weighed down their pockets full of stones—More info »

By Jules Bly, from Issue #448 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.Do not stop singing. If your voice fails, the world vanishes.More info »

By Anne Wilkins, from Issue #447 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine“Perhaps,” I lie.More info »

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #445 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Kiris was only five years old and had not even started training as a magician when she learned a song that told of a crow that only knew one story.More info »

By Adrian Ward, from Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRegarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame.More info »

By Will McMahon, from Issue #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine...to find that he now could not be certain of which way he had come...More info »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

By Samuel Chapman, from Issue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson and Michael J. DeLuca.An incredible silence ensues. Cyfris lets the quiet stretch on long enough for Dovan to know she has caught him.More info »

By Kaitlyn Zivanovich, from Issue #391 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Sandra Espinoza.When Rviv is twelve, she is walking through the town square with her Cuialo crechemates when a stranger hails her in her mother’s language. She stops; her friends do not.More info »

By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But in that darkness, there is also power.More info »

By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #389 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.“Those with power who do not act? I do judge them.”More info »

By Kay Chronister, from Issue #387 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Sandra Espinoza.Maribel should have known that the new pig-boy would have to be named soon.More info »

By Kel Coleman, from Issue #385 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore.He pointed out more mistakes; some amateur, others he still made on occasion.More info »

By Kat Howard, from Issue #383 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Eleanora loved the ossuary best as evening fell.More info »

By Maria Haskins, from Issue #382 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I loved my Mama. I know she did the best she could. But she was wrong to leave my brother here.More info »

By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #380 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by the author.I knew the power the Godless were imbued with from childhood, to detect the parasite that had destroyed our gods.More info »