- BCS 349: Out of Draconia2025/07/10
By Alma Alexander , from Issue #436 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.”
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- BCS 348: The Feather Tree2025/06/26
By KJ Kabza , from Issue #435 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 347: Unbeaten2025/05/15
By Grace Seybold , from Issue #432 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Summer Fletcher .
I would be a sword no longer.
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- BCS 346: The Tale of How You Were Born2025/05/01
By Eleanor Elizabeth Fog , from Issue #431 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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?”
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- BCS 345: The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King2025/04/03
By Jelena Dunato , from Issue #429 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 344: Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory2025/03/06
By Nicole L. Soper Gorden , from Issue #427 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
But no visitor here would dare turn her in, whether they left with a cloud or not.
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- BCS 343: Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows2025/02/06
By Somto Ihezue , from Issue #425 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Opeyemi Ogundiran .
They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself.
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- BCS 342: Half Drowned2025/01/09
By S.L. Harris , from Issue #423 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I 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.
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- BCS 341: Speaking the Sun2024/11/28
By Thomas Bales , from Issue #421 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
They say that if I stop speaking, the sun will not rise.
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- BCS 340: Three Drops in the River2024/10/17
By Marissa Lingen , from Issue #418 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 338: Nine Tenths of the Law2024/10/03
By K.J. Parker , from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller .
Someone yelling inside my head gives me a migraine for the rest of the day.
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- BCS 339: Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn2024/10/03
By Rajiv Moté , from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca .
The necromancers' wine wasn't merely dark; it sat in the cup like glistening black oil.
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- BCS 337: After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland2024/09/19
By Max Franciscovich , from Issue #416 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
We are what he made us; you must know this.
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- BCS 335: Conversation with a Dragon2024/08/22
By Cat Rambo , from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.”
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- BCS 336: At the Stopping Place2024/08/22
By Grace Seybold , from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine .
Jinnie, since it was clear no-one was paying attention to her, darted out to scrub away the human’s footprints.
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- BCS 334: The Wicks Whisper2024/07/11
By Emily C. Skaftun , from Issue #411 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
Even so, I’m tempted to light my new soul candle. Mom.
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- BCS 333: An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor2024/06/13
By Cara Masten DiGirolamo , from Issue #409 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 332: Gods and Monsters and Brothers2024/05/16
By J. Bridges , from Issue #407 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
He was a shell of his former self by the time I found him.
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- BCS 331: A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places2024/05/02
By Marissa Lingen , from Issue #406 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
I could have refused. A year earlier, two years, I would have.
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- BCS 330: A Reflection of Sun2024/04/18
By Liana Richmond , from Issue #405 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 329: The Coffee of Torcat2024/04/04
By Devin Miller , from Issue #404 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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."
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- BCS 328: The Dust Eater2024/03/21
By Adam Breckenridge , from Issue #403 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 327: Tell the King2024/02/22
By Natalia Theodoridou , from Issue #401 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 326: The Rug-Maker and the Wonder Collector2024/02/15
By Emily McIntyre , from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 325: Doctor Souvenir2024/02/08
By Elly Bangs , from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Summer Fletcher .
But what kind of weapon could possibly be made out of bittersweet memory?
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- BCS 324: Willow Wood2024/01/11
By Linda Niehoff , from Issue #398 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 323: What Will Bring You Home2023/11/30
By Jenny Rae Rappaport , from Issue #396 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
At the table with you are three fairies, their clothing just as ridiculous and just as shimmering as your own.
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- BCS 322: Something That Has Never Touched the Ground2023/11/02
By Marilyn Hope , from Issue #394 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 321: The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa2023/10/19
By Myna Chang , from Issue #393 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
My ghost is trapped in this bedchamber, much as I was in life.
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- BCS 320: The Light of Setting Suns2023/10/05
By Samuel Chapman , from Issue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 319: Where the River Comes From2023/09/21
By Kaitlyn Zivanovich , from Issue #391 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 318: Holding Back the Darkness2023/09/07
By Stephanie Burgis , from Issue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
But in that darkness, there is also power.
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- BCS 317: Interlude: Shelter From the Storm2023/08/24
By Rajiv Moté , from Issue #389 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
“Those with power who do not act? I do judge them.”
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- BCS 316: Merciful Even to Scorpions2023/07/27
By Kay Chronister , from Issue #387 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Sandra Espinoza .
Maribel should have known that the new pig-boy would have to be named soon.
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- BCS 315: Disassembling Light2023/06/29
By Kel Coleman , from Issue #385 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Maxine L. Moore .
He pointed out more mistakes; some amateur, others he still made on occasion.
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- BCS 314: Eleanora of the Bones2023/06/01
By Kat Howard , from Issue #383 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
Eleanora loved the ossuary best as evening fell.
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- BCS 313: The Whisper of That Blood2023/05/18
By Maria Haskins , from Issue #382 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated 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.
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- BCS 312: The Cuckoo of Vrežna Mountain2023/04/20
By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko , from Issue #380 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by the author.
I knew the power the Godless were imbued with from childhood, to detect the parasite that had destroyed our gods.
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- BCS 311: Blooms2023/03/23
By Grace Seybold , from Issue #378 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
Most of what she planted in the garden grew now, even if cabbages cried in the night and tomatoes disappeared.
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- BCS 310: The Changeling and the Child2023/03/09
By Pooja Peravali , from Issue #377 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
How does one explain it to one such as her, how motherhood tugs at you?
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- BCS 309: Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea2023/02/23
By Kelsey Hutton , from Issue #376 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Laurie McDougall .
She’d hoped to sew a dress powerful enough to remind the queen who the queen claimed as kin, and who claimed her in return.
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- BCS 308: A Forcible Calm2023/02/09
By Jonathan Olfert , from Issue #375 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
All four were Brothers of Dule, magicians of a shared heritage and shared interests, her enemies—and yet there might be fissures.
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- BCS 307: Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya2023/01/12
By M.A. Carrick , from Issue #373 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Marie Brennan .
The warp is Constant Ivan, strong and steady. The weft is Clever Natalya, darting here and there.
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- BCS 306: Half-Spent Was the Night2022/12/15
By Gretchen Tessmer , from Issue #371 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
She finds herself muttering to Jonah, “What if Leah never knows what any color but grey looks like?”
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- BCS 305: By Hand and By Heart2022/12/08
By Tina Connolly , from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
And this was apparently the point where she was supposed to feel lucky.
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- BCS 304: He Stays Among the Commots2022/12/01
By Christopher Rowe , from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca .
All the cantrevs of his homeland had been burned.
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- BCS Audio Vault 041: A Nickel For The Burlap Man2022/12/01
By Patty Templeton , from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, detailing the feel and inspirations for the story’s world of Shady Grove.
The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.
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- BCS Audio Vault 040: Portrait of the Artist2022/11/17
By K.J. Parker , from Issue #369 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by narrator Carla Kissane, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.
“I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious.
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- BCS Audio Vault 039: The Thought That Counts2022/11/03
By K.J. Parker , from Issue #368 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by audiobook and podcast narrator Heath Miller, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.
For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name.
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- BCS 303: Playing God2022/10/13
By K.J. Parker , from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller .
Try thinking about it, the Archer God had said, so I did.
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- BCS 302: Fire and Brimstone in the Twin Cities2022/10/06
By James Morrow , from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca .
Lot revisits his tankard and frowns thoughtfully.
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- BCS 300: Five Aspects of River and Sky2022/09/22
By Adam R. Shannon , from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Featuring Scott H. Andrews, Michael J. DeLuca , Tina Connolly , M.K. Hobson , and Summer Fletcher .
Annell's throws always rose high enough that the skies accepted her sacrifice. Why did she have to leave instead of me?
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- BCS 301: Of the Body2022/09/22
By Eugenia Triantafyllou , from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
I am terrified of the moment when Osarah and I will hunt down the animal that bears our child and kill it.
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- BCS Audio Vault 038: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power2022/09/08
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By R.B. Lemberg , from Issue #364 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining elements of the Birdverse world and culture and characters that appear in the novella and how one of the characters connects with the new Birdverse novel The Unbalancing.
Across great distances I hear her voice rolling over the sand, traipsing gently above bones of impossible beasts that perhaps had one day populated the desert.
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- BCS 299: Imagine a Thief with Golden Fire in Their Voice2022/08/25
By Riley Neither , from Issue #363 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
I am not saying I don’t have the power. There’s no point in denying that. I’m saying I don’t have the right.
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- BCS Audio Vault 037: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away2022/08/11
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By Natalia Theodoridou , from Issue #362 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
With an introduction from the author, explaining their beliefs on the story’s theme of individual freedom and autonomy.
The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sapo kneels by the doe and feels for the outlines of the little one with her fingers. A gasp escapes her when it moves under the dead doe's skin.
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- BCS 298: How to Be a True Woman While Piloting a Steam-Engine Balloon2022/07/14
By Valerie Hunter , from Issue #360 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
Amelia is the best pilot the Territorial Revolutionists have. That's not boasting, it’s just true.
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- BCS 297: Different Kinds of Thorn2022/06/16
By Devin Miller , from Issue #358 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine .
She has offered a dangerous thing, but oh, it is a sweet one too. To lie with a dryad, queen of the wood, would be an experience unlike any other.
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- BCS Audio Vault 036: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch2022/06/02
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By A.J. Lucy , from Issue #357 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations in complicity with institutional systems and activism risking that status for beliefs or people you believe in.
It burns like dust in Sere’s eyes to hear Tashet take her name back, to keep for herself.
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- BCS 296: I Will Sing Your White Bones Home2022/05/19
By Cat Hellisen , from Issue #356 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
He was speared by a finless, and we watched his head rot at the edge of the sea.
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- BCS 295: The Mountains of Another World, Where Eagles May Fly Free2022/05/05
By Aimee Ogden , from Issue #355 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca .
Time is the greatest sorcerer, and eventually it will force him into a new shape: a sea-bloated corpse.
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- BCS 294: Valor Bones2022/04/21
By Derrick Boden , from Issue #354 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
The monster-thing watched with great interest. Leti turned the page and started to read.
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- BCS 293: Ten Fruits and Other Memories of Rialynas2022/04/07
By AnaMaria Curtis , from Issue #353 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine .
I always wanted the best of as many worlds as I could get my hands on, though I only ever managed two.
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- BCS 292: Venturing2022/03/24
By Jonathan Louis Duckworth , from Issue #352 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
My name’s Zilda Trueshake and I’m big for twelve, or so Dad Bray is always like to tell.
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- BCS Audio Vault 035: The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies2022/03/10
By Peter Darbyshire , from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the genesis of the Angel Azrael character, his horror-influenced Weird Western world, and the personal bibles in that world.
The angel Azrael surveyed the remains of the town. The place was as dead as the horse he sat on.
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- BCS 291: A Nickel For The Burlap Man2022/03/10
By Patty Templeton , from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.
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- BCS Audio Vault 034: Gennesaret2022/03/03
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By Phoenix Alexander , from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations from inter-generational political attitudes in families of immigrants and patriarchal culture and how its use of science-fantasy elements shaped its presentation.
She says instead: "because he isn’t coming."
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- BCS 290: At the Foot of the Dragon Stair2022/02/24
By Aliette de Bodard , from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
Thanh Lan walked to the door, legs shaking.
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- BCS 289: Bonsai Starships2022/02/10
By Yoon Ha Lee , from Issue #349 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
The third bonsai swayed to the bleak tides of distant and colliding black hole inspirals.
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- BCS 288: Godmaker2022/01/27
By J.A. Prentice , from Issue #348 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca .
There was silence in the workshop, and for a terrible moment, he was afraid he would receive an answer.
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- BCS Audio Vault 033: The Three Feats of Agani2022/01/13
By Christie Yant , from Issue #347 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, posing questions as to who stories belong to and whether they matter.
I had hoped to tell you the first story in the summers to come. It is my sorrowful task to tell you all three, instead.
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- BCS 287: Redfin Spine2022/01/01
By Jonathan Olfert , from Issue #346 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
I thought I saw a smile flicker past in the dark, quick as one of his sharktooth arrows.
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- BCS Audio Vault 032: As Tight As Any Knot2021/12/02
By M.A. Carrick , from Issue #344 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, the two authors behind the M.A. Carrick pen name, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson.
Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.
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- BCS Audio Vault 031: Undercurrents2021/11/18
By Charles Payseur , from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s take on resistance and cooperation.
Rory nods. The bullets are Lutean-made, salt and iron and whatever special magic they use to make them potent against rivers.
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- BCS Audio Vault 030: Rivers Run Free2021/11/11
By Charles Payseur , from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s element that oppression can link people together and can tear people apart.
We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.
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- BCS 286: No Say2021/11/04
By Jonathan Louis Duckworth , from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
Unless Tadie didn’t let him. She stepped a pace back and pulled Loyd with her, away from Jessen.
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- BCS Audio Vault 029: Every Tiny Tooth and Claw (or, Letters from the First Month of the New Directorate)2021/10/28
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By Marissa Lingen , from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, discussing the story’s approach to characters and politics and to political systems.
I don't want to make all our letters about shrews, love, but... I've attached a table I'd like to see filled out with different properties of the shrews and their venom. Thank you!
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- BCS 285: The Last Days of Summer in the City of Olives2021/10/21
By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko , from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
"Tell me, Maria," she said. "What is happening to our people?"
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- BCS Audio Vault 028: The Mermaid Astronaut2021/10/08
By Yoon Ha Lee , from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the inspiration for the story and its ending note.
This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam.
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- BCS 284: Stronger2021/10/07
By K.J. Parker , from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller .
Love is the arrow that pins us down so we can't escape.
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- BCS 283: In Case You’re the One to Devour a Star2021/09/23
By Tamara Jerée , from Issue #339 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Maxine L. Moore .
Her voice is soft when she speaks, as if anything louder could aggravate my old wound.
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- BCS 282: The Shape of Wings and Feathers2021/09/09
By Jenny Rae Rappaport , from Issue #338 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
But this is a test designed to weed the weak from the strong, and part of Bryce realizes that she must try something different.
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- BCS 281: For Rain Is To Wet and Fire To Burn2021/08/26
By Robert Minto , from Issue #337 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The angels plunged into the orange glowing mouth of my kiln.
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- BCS 280: A Flower Cannot Love the Hand2021/06/17
By Aimee Ogden , from Issue #332 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
I am still myself and so I am answered at last: yes, I have a soul, no matter what shape its vessel is forced into.
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- BCS 279: The Woods Echo Back2021/06/03
By Tania Fordwalker , from Issue #331 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .
Shon knows silence well.
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- BCS 278: Hassan the Executioner Walks Out of Jawasar for the Last Time2021/05/20
By R.K. Duncan , from Issue #330 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh .
Hassan had loved her, but his eyes had still been clear enough to know how the world saw her.
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- BCS 277: Oak Apple Night2021/05/06
By Marie Brennan , from Issue #329 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
None of them would talk about it—except to say, as her father had, that this was Penderel family tradition.
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- BCS 276: A Stranger Goes Ashore2021/04/22
By Adam R. Shannon , from Issue #328 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca .
Every new shore was the same: a blue expanse conjoined to unyielding volcanic stone, wreathed in a furious margin of foam.
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- BCS 275: The Captain and the Quartermaster2021/03/25
By C.L. Clark , from Issue #326 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris .
Commander Maeb Len knows that, more than anything, an army needs hope in order to struggle onward.
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- BCS 274: Dead at the Feet of a God2021/03/11
By Izzy Wasserstein , from Issue #325 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Summer Fletcher .
The portents float at the edge of your vision, haunt your dreams, shake themselves free with each throwing of the bones.
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- BCS 273: When Your Being Here is Gentler Than Your Absence Hard2021/02/11
By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko , from Issue #323 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
She is Fallon Deere, First Minister to the Free State of Altorania, and you are you, the woman who sent me to her side.
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- BCS 272: The Guadalupe Witch2021/01/28
By Josh Rountree , from Issue #322 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris .
I was never that person, no matter how hard Ellard and so many others tried to turn me into her.
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- BCS 271: Colombina2021/01/01
By Jelena Dunato , from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
Put me on, girl, you’ve nothing to lose.
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- BCS 270: As Tight as Any Knot2021/01/01
By M.A. Carrick , from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine .
Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.
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- BCS 269: The Garden Where No One Ever Goes2020/12/03
By P H Lee , from Issue #318 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Summer Fletcher .
I meet you in the middle of the night in the garden where no one goes.
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- BCS 268: A Land of Blood and Snow2020/11/05
By Cooper Anderson , from Issue #316 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Rajan Khanna .
There is no safety for us anymore in the waxing and waning of the moon.
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- BCS 267: The Heart That Saves You May Be Your Own2020/10/01
By Merrie Haskell , from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
You carry a rifle and a dream of a white dress. You sleep under the stars. You hunt.
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- BCS 266: A Minor Exorcism2020/09/24
By Richard Parks , from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A more tunnel-like hole had been dug into some of the graves, possibly to test them for the freshness of the corpses.
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- BCS 265: Deep in the Drift, Spinning2020/09/10
By Lisa L. Hannett , from Issue #312 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris .
A pause only Winnifletch herself notices, a twinge in her guts as she unsacks the gull that Gert Mews has lugged to her sea-spindle shack.
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- BCS 264: Doorway, Smile, Kiss, Fox2020/08/27
By Jeremy Packert Burke , from Issue #311 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I have wondered these past two years which of us would meet our end first—myself or the city.
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- BCS 263: Seven Dreams of a Valley2020/07/02
By Prashanth Srivatsa , from Issue #307 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh .
On the fourth night... ...I was at a wedding.
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- BCS 262: The Augur and the Girl Left at His Door2020/06/18
By Greta Hayer , from Issue #306 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine .
The augur could read on her skin that she would be cared for by an old man who was not her kin.
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- BCS 261: The Widow2020/06/04
By Emma Törzs , from Issue #305 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly .
I hear you are yourself of low birth, Monsieur de la Martinière, and so may understand what it’s like to experience, for the first time, not even luxury but safety.
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- BCS 260: The Honey of the World and the Queen of Crows2020/05/21
By Dimitra Nikolaidou , from Issue #304 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The clock is huge, its heavy frame carved with crow feathers and bees, and I dare not look at it too long for fear the hands will start moving again.
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- BCS 259: Fox Red, Life Red, Teeth Like Snow2020/05/07
By Devin Miller , from Issue #303 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca .
No troll’s life is so shaped by her body.
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- BCS 258: Who Goes Against a Waste of Waters2020/04/23
By Eleanna Castroianni , from Issue #302 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
We are the only ones left to herd the ghost-sheep.
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- BCS 257: Her Cage of Root and Bone2020/04/09
By Kali Wallace , from Issue #301 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris .We do not discuss, Nell and I.
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- BCS 256: Uzumaki of the Lake2020/03/26
By Richard Parks , from Issue #300, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I knew from long experience that yūrei could take on shapes not their own in the course of settling unfinished earthly business.
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- BCS 255: The Sniper and I2020/03/12
By Rich Larson , from Issue #299 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Rajan Khanna .One nerve cable was still in place, snaking from the gun into their skull.
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- BCS 254: The Mermaid Astronaut2020/02/27
By Yoon Ha Lee , from Issue #298 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson .This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam.
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- BCS 253: John Simnel’s First Goshawk2020/02/13
- BCS 252: Forgive Me, My Love, for the Ice and the Sea2020/01/30
- BCS 251: Every Tiny Tooth and Claw (or: Letters from the First Month of the New Directorate)2020/01/16
- BCS 250: These Wondrous Sweets2020/01/02
- BCS 249: The Gods Come to Sredna2019/11/07
- BCS 248: The Butcher, the Baker2019/10/24
- BCS 247: The Edges of the World2019/10/10
- BCS 246: Sankalpa2019/10/03
- BCS 245: Portrait Of The Artist2019/09/26
- BCS 244: The Silent Flowers of the Magician’s Garden2019/09/12
- BCS 243: A Song for the Leadwood Tree2019/08/29
- BCS 242: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away2019/07/04
- BCS 241: Black, Like Earth2019/06/20
- BCS 240: Revival2019/06/06
- BCS 239: The Two-Bullet War2019/05/23
- BCS 238: The Bone Flute Quartet2019/05/09
- BCS 237: Fury at the Crossroads2019/04/25
- BCS 236: The Red Honey Witch2019/04/11
- BCS 235: Undercurrents2019/03/28
- BCS 234: New Horizons2019/03/14
- BCS 233: When Sirens Sing of Roses and of Delegated Power2019/02/28
- BCS 232: Adrianna in Pomegranate2019/02/14
- BCS 231: To Stab with a Rose, to Love with a Knife2019/01/31
- BCS 230: The Deepest Notes of the Harp and Drum2019/01/17
- BCS 229: The Blighted Godling of Company Town H2019/01/03
- BCS 228: Feral Attachments at Kulle Bland Bergen2018/11/22
- BCS 227: In the Ground, Before the Freeze2018/11/08
- BCS 226: The Oracle and the Sea2018/10/25
- BCS 225: Magic Potion Behind-the-Mountains2018/10/11
- BCS 224: Ruby, Singing2018/09/27
- BCS 223: Ancestor Night2018/09/13
- BCS 222: Periling Hand2018/08/30
- BCS 221: The Scrimshander2018/07/05
- BCS 220: The Weaver and the Snake2018/06/07
- BCS 219: The Wild Ride of the Untamed Stars2018/05/24
- BCS 218: The Examination Cloth2018/05/10
- BCS 217: An Account of the Madness of the Magistrate, Chengdhu Village2018/05/03
- BCS 216: The Thought That Counts2018/04/26
- BCS 215: Weft2018/04/12
- BCS 214: She Who Hungers, She Who Waits2018/03/29
- BCS 213: Braving the Morrow Candle’s Wane2018/03/15
- BCS 212: Gennesaret2018/03/01
- BCS 211: Penitents2018/02/15
- BCS 210: The Starship and the Temple Cat2018/02/01
- BCS 209: Benefactors of Silence2018/01/18
- BCS 208: Suite for Accompanied Cello2018/01/04
- BCS 207: The Mouth of the Oyster2017/11/21
- BCS 206: The Şiret Mask2017/11/09
- BCS 205: Every Black Tree2017/10/26
- BCS 204: The Fall of the Mundaneum2017/10/12
- BCS 203: On the Road to the Hell of Hungry Ghosts2017/09/28
- BCS 202: Dire Wolf2017/09/14
- BCS Audio Vault 027: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud2017/08/31
- BCS 201: Rivers Run Free2017/07/20
- BCS 200: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power2017/07/06
- BCS 199: A Late Quintessence2017/06/22
- BCS 198: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch2017/06/08
- BCS 197: In Memory of Jianhong, Snake-Devil2017/05/25
- BCS 196: Carnival Nine2017/05/11
- BCS 195: That Lingering Sweetness2017/04/27
- BCS 194: I Have Been Drowned in Rain2017/04/13
- BCS 193: Nightshade2017/03/30
- BCS 192: In the Shade of the Pixie Tree2017/03/16
- BCS 191: Suddenwall2017/03/02
- BCS 190: Men of the Ashen Morrow2017/02/16
- BCS 189: Out of the Woods2017/02/02
- BCS 188: Think Of Winter2017/01/19
- BCS 187: Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves2017/01/05
- BCS Audio Vault 026: Everything Beneath You2016/12/08
- BCS 186: The Uncarved Heart2016/11/10
- BCS 185: The Garden of Ending2016/10/27
- BCS 184: A Cup of Comfort2016/10/13
- BCS 183: The Wind Shall Blow2016/09/29
- BCS 182: Abere and the Poisoner2016/09/15
- BCS 181: To Rise No More2016/09/01
- BCS Audio Vault 025: And Blow Them at the Moon2016/08/25
- BCS 180: The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles2016/07/07
- BCS 179: Mortal Eyes2016/06/23
- BCS 178: The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery2016/06/09
- BCS 177: Shadow’s Weave2016/06/02
- BCS 176: Laws of Night and Silk2016/05/26
- BCS 175: They Said the Desert2016/05/12
- BCS Audio Vault 024: The Topaz Marquise2016/05/05
- BCS 174: Whale-Oil2016/04/28
- BCS 173: The Sweetest Skill2016/04/14
- BCS Audio Vault 023: No Sweeter Art2016/04/07
- BCS 172: Sea of Dreams2016/03/31
- BCS Audio Vault 022: The Breath of War2016/03/24
- BCS 170: A Salvaging of Ghosts2016/03/17
- BCS 171: The Mountains His Crown2016/03/17
- BCS 169: Call and Answer, Plant and Harvest2016/03/10
- BCS Audio Vault 021: The Book of Locked Doors2016/03/10
- BCS 168: Foxfire, Foxfire2016/03/03
- BCS 167: And the Blessing of the Angels Came Upon Them2016/02/18
- BCS 166: The Three Dancers of Gizari2016/02/04
- BCS 165: Blessed are Those Who Have Seen and Do Not Believe2016/01/21
- BCS 164: The Mama Mmiri2016/01/07
- BCS 163: A Killer of Dead Men2015/12/24
- BCS Audio Vault 020: In the Age of Iron and Ashes2015/11/24
- BCS 162: Bloodless2015/11/12
- BCS 161: Unearthly Landscape by a Lady2015/10/29
- BCS 160: A Careful Fire2015/10/15
- BCS 159: The Sons of Vincente2015/10/08
- BCS 158: Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken2015/09/17
- BCS 157: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud2015/09/03
- BCS 156: Seasons Set in Skin2015/08/06
- BCS 155: Stone Prayers2015/07/23
- BCS 154: Court Bindings2015/07/09
- BCS 153: The Girl with Golden Hair2015/06/25
- BCS Audio Vault 019: The Nine-Tailed Cat2015/06/18
- BCS 152: The Warriors, The Mothers, The Drowned2015/06/11
- BCS 151: Two to Leave2015/05/28
- BCS 150: The Punctuality Machine, Or, A Steampunk Libretto2015/05/14
- BCS 149: Swallowing Silver2015/04/30
- BCS Audio Vault 018: Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride2015/04/21
- BCS 148: The Fires of Mercy2015/04/16
- BCS Audio Vault 017: Hangman2015/04/09
- BCS 147: The Sixth Day2015/04/02
- BCS 146: Sun, Stone, Spear2015/03/19
- BCS Audio Vault 016: Blighted Heart2015/03/12
- BCS 145: A Screech of Gulls2015/03/05
- BCS 144: The King in the Cathedral2015/02/19
- BCS 143: The Metamorphoses of Narcissus2015/02/05
- BCS Audio Vault 015: The Ascent of Unreason2015/01/29
- BCS 142: Everything Beneath You2015/01/22
- BCS Audio Vault 014: Between Shifting Skin and Certainty2015/01/15
- BCS 141: Novel Excerpt Galápagos Regained2015/01/08
- BCS Audio Vault 013: Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping2015/01/02
- BCS 140: Alloy Point2014/12/25
- BCS Audio Vault 012: The Last Gorgon2014/12/18
- BCS Audio Vault 011: System, Magic, Spirit2014/12/04
- BCS Audio Vault 010: Armistice Day2014/11/20
- BCS 139: The Streetking2014/11/13
- BCS Audio Vault 009: Ill-Met at Midnight2014/11/06
- BCS 138: The Rugmaker’s Lovers2014/10/30
- BCS Audio Vault 008: The Suffering Gallery2014/10/23
- BCS 137: Butterfly House2014/10/16
- BCS 136: The Moon Over Red Trees2014/10/09
- BCS 135: The Sorrow of Rain2014/10/02
- BCS Audio Vault 007: Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood2014/09/25
- BCS 134: The Good Deaths, Part II2014/09/18
- BCS Audio Vault 006: The Penitent2014/09/11
- BCS 133: No Sweeter Art2014/09/04
- BCS Audio Vault 005: Pale2014/08/28
- BCS 132: Five Fruits I Ate in Sandar Land2014/08/21
- BCS Audio Vault 004: Precious Meat2014/08/14
- BCS 131: The Topaz Marquise2014/08/07
- BCS Audio Vault 003: Haxan2014/07/31
- BCS Audio Vault 002: One Ear Back2014/07/17
- BCS Audio Vault 001: How the Wicker Knight Would Not Move2014/06/28
- BCS 130: The Black Waters of Lethe2014/06/26
- BCS 129: Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands2014/06/12
- BCS 128: The Use and the Need2014/05/29
- BCS 127: We, As One, Trailing Embers2014/05/15
- BCS 126: The Lighthouse Keepers2014/05/01
- BCS 125: At the Edge of the Sea2014/04/17
- BCS 124: Golden Daughter, Stone Wife2014/04/03
- BCS 123: Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation2014/03/27
- BCS 122: The River Does Not Run2014/03/20
- BCS 121: The Breath of War2014/03/06
- BCS 120: Pilgrims2014/02/20
- BCS 119: Evensong, Having Been Answered2014/02/06
- BCS 118: Enginesong2014/01/23
- BCS 117: Whistler’s Grove2014/01/09
- BCS 116: Walking Still2013/12/26
- BCS 115: The Adventure of the Pyramid of Bacconyus2013/11/14
- BCS 114: A Feast for Dust2013/10/31
- BCS 113: Walls of Skin, Soft as Paper2013/10/17
- BCS 112: The Black Veil2013/10/03
- BCS 111: The Goblin King’s Concubine2013/09/19
- BCS 110: Ill-Met at Midnight2013/09/05
- BCS 109: The Study of Monstrosities2013/08/22
- BCS 108: Last Rites for a Vagabond2013/08/08
- BCS 107: The Girl Who Welcomed Death to Svalgearyen2013/07/25
- BCS 106: The Penitent2013/06/13
- BCS 105: Our Dead Selves Lie Like Footsteps in Our Wake2013/05/30
- BCS 104: Singing Like a Hundred Dug-up Bones2013/05/16
- BCS 103: The Clockwork Trollop2013/05/02
- BCS 102: The Barber and the Count2013/04/18
- BCS 101: Armistice Day2013/04/04
- BCS 100: Boat in Shadows, Crossing2013/03/21
- BCS 099: Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes2013/03/07
- BCS 098: Sate My Thirst with Ink and Blood2013/02/21
- BCS 097: Misbegotten2013/02/07
- BCS 096: Death Sent2013/01/24
- BCS 095: The Scorn of the Peregrinator2013/01/10
- BCS 094: Seeking The Great Raymundo2012/12/27
- BCS 093: They Make of You a Monster2012/11/15
- BCS 091: Cursed Motives2012/10/18
- BCS 090: Worth of Crows2012/10/04