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Free Fiction Round-Up: April 17, 2012

17 Apr 2012  Media

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “Golubash (Wine-Blood-War-Story)” by Catherynne M. Valente.
  • Listen to “If It Ain’t Broke” by Maya Bonhnhoff at Beam Me UP.
  • Listen to “Killing the Morrow” by Robert Reed at Drabblecast.
  • Listen to “The Most Precious of Treasures” (Part 1) by Desmond Warzel.
  • Listen to “The Orchard of Hanging Trees” by Nicole Cushing at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “The Rowan Gentleman” by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.
  • Listen to “The Steam Dancer (1896)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Listen to “There Are No Great Truths Here” by D T Friedman at Toasted Cake.
  • Listen to “Vicar of Mars” by Gwyneth Jones at StarShipSofa.

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Read the flash fiction “A Brave Encounter” by DJ Barber at Yesteryear Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “Instruction for Randolph Carter” by Chad Stroup.
  • Read the flash fiction “Rust” by Steven Saus at Daily Sci-Fi.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download Aenima by Stephanie Bibb in multiple formats at Smashword.
  • Download Crow and Canary: Blood Ties by Heikki Eskola at Smashword.
  • Listen to an excerpt of A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.
  • Listen to an excerpt of Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse by Troy Denning.
  • Listen to an excerpt of Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Outcast by Aaron Allston.
  • Read an excerpt of The Assassin’s Code by Jonathan Maberry at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of The Battle of Blood and Ink by Jared Axelrod at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig at Angry Robot Books.
  • Read an excerpt of Dark Magic by James Swain at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi from BN.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Evil Dark by Justin Gustainis at Angry Robot Books.
  • Read an excerpt of The Gift of Fire/On The Head of A Pin by Walter Mosley at Tor.
  • Read an excerpt of The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin at the author’s website.
  • Read an excerpt of The Nekropolis Archives by Tim Waggoner.
  • Read an excerpt of Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem at Weird Fiction Review.
  • Read an excerpt of One Of Us by Iain Rowan.
  • Read an excerpt of Orb Sceptre Throne by Ian Cameron Esslemont at Tor.
  • Read an excerpt of Princeps by L. E. Modesitt Jr. at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater at Entertainment Weekly.
  • Read an excerpt of Tricked by Kevin Hearne at Suvudu.
  • Read an excerpt of Without Warning by John Birmingham at Suvudu.

Poetry

  • The Ballad of Death and the Maid by Roz Kaveney
  • Defending the Killer by Jamie Wasserman
  • Fish and Humans by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
  • Fred’s Story by John Grey
  • From the House of Dionysos by Virginia M. Mohlere
  • Irrelative by Raymond HV Gallucci
  • The Midwife by Darrell Lindsey
  • Spirit Week by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
  • Supernova by WC Roberts
  • Zombie Wedding Chant by Rhea Rose

Short Stories

  • Read “The Ale Wife” by Christopher Owen at Mirror Dance.
  • Read “The Barrier” by Logan Merritt at Mad Scientist Journal.
  • Read “Beneath Impossible Circumstances” by Andrea Kneeland.
  • Read “The Chimney-Dragon” by Ruth Berman at Samsdotpublishing.
  • Read “The Choir Invisible” by Anatoly Belilovsky at Kasma SF.
  • Read “CODE 13B” by Robert P. Hansen at Samsdotpublishing.
  • Read “The Dying Drones” by Christian A. Larsen at Ray Gun Revival.
  • Read “Fog” by Carol H. March at Mirror Dance.
  • Read “The Ghosts of Ganymede” by Dr. Krista Solaris at Mad Scientist Journal.
  • Read “The Grinder” by Matthew C. Funk at Short-Story.
  • Read “Long Way Home” by Tim Waggoner at Tales To Terrify.
  • Read “The Love Mod” by Anna Sykora at Mirror Dance.
  • Read “Mother Ship” by Caroline M. Yoachim at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “Moonbeams and Shadows” by Isabella Hodson at Luna Station Quarterly.
  • Read “Nomad” by Karin Lowachee at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “Nor custom stale” by Anatoly Belilovsky at Nature.
  • Read “Not Fade Away” by Nora Fleischer at Aoife’s Kiss.
  • Read “On 20468 Petercook” by Andy Duncan at Tor.com.
  • Read “Past Lives of a Goddess” by Barb Siples at Anotherealm.
  • Read “The Players” by Caroline Spencer at Mirror Dance.
  • Read “Purple Star” by Chris Morey at Aoife’s Kiss.
  • Read “The Steam Dancer (1896)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “The Storm” by Siobhan Gallagher at Eschatology Journal.
  • Read “The Sympathy” by Eric Gregory at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” by Neil Gaiman at Fifty-Two.
  • Read “The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future” by Jay Lake.
  • Read “The Witch’s Cat” by Michelle D. Sonnier at Aoife’s Kiss.
  • Read “You Can Choose Your Parents” by Richard S. Levine at samsdotpublishing.



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