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Free Fiction Round-Up: December 13, 2011

13 Dec 2011  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “Aldo” by Michael C. Thompson at Dunesteef.
  • Listen to “Chicken Noodle Gravity” by J. Daniel Sawyer at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “The Heroics of Interior Design” by Elise R. Hopkins at Drabblecast.
  • Listen to “Hunted Heroes” by Robert SilverBerg at DramaPod.
  • Listen to “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen at Classic Tales Podcast.
  • Listen to “Ties of Silver” by James L. Sutter at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “To My Wondering Eyes Did Appear” by Larry C. Kay at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “Torn Away” by Joe R. Lansdale at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Listen to “Watchbird” by Robert Sheckley at StarShipSofa.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • CBR offers a preview of Carnage U.S.A. #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Everlast
  • CBR offers a preview of Fatale #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand OGN
  • CBR offers a preview of Killing Pickman
  • CBR offers a preview of The Li’L Depressed Boy, Vol. #0
  • CBR offers a preview of The Manhattan Projects #1
  • CBR offers a preview of The Red Wing TPB
  • CBR offers a preview of Saga #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Sacrifice #1
  • CBR offers a preview of The Strain #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Witch Doctor TPB, vol. #1
  • iFanBoy offers a preview of Avengers: X-Sanction #1
  • iFanBoy offers a preview of Avengers VS. X-Men #0
  • iFanBoy offers a preview of The Secret History of D.B. Cooper #1
  • Tor.com offers a preview of The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 1

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • 55 Fiction is a form of microfiction with a few rules, including a limitation to 55 words. Started as a contest in a local San Luis Obispo, California alt-weekly paper in 1987, the contest has been replicated elsewhere, including two related books and two unrelated websites. The latest contest is now done.
  • Read the flash fiction “Autopsy” by Budge Burgess at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “Character is What You Are” by Michael R. Fletcher.
  • Read the flash fiction “During the Eclipse” by Christopher Owen at Weirdyear.
  • Read the flash fiction “Last Wish” by J. S. Hill at Weirdyear.
  • Read the flash fiction “Love And Perpetual Motion” by Bart Meehan at AntiSF.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Macroscope” by Lou Caravelli at Antipodean SF.
  • Read the flash fiction “Sloth the Lazy Dragon” by Regan W. H. Macaulay.
  • Read the flash fiction “Still Life with Family” by Mary Bachran at Quantum Flash.
  • Read the flash fiction “A Time to Kill” by Melanie Rees at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “To Be Not Me” by Jeff Samson at Brain Harvest.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download Avoiding Space Madness by Leslie K Ernest for the Kindle.
  • Download The Awakened: Book One by Jason Tesar for the Kindle.
  • Download The Bones of the Earth Part 1 by Scott Bury for the Nook.
  • Download The Book of Deacon by Joseph Lallo for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download The Emperor’s Edge by Lindsay Buroker for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download Knights: The Eye of Divinity by Robert E. Keller for the Kindle.
  • Listen to an excerpt of The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold! by Terry Brooks at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of Artemis by Philip Palmer at Orbit.
  • Read an excerpt of City of Light and Shadow by Ian Whates at Issuu.
  • Read an excerpt of Empire State by Adam Christopher at Issuu.
  • Read an excerpt of The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells at Fantasy Book Critic.
  • Read an excerpt of Sisterhood of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson.

Poetry

  • Adrift in a City of Pulsing Light by Bruce Boston
  • Dyson’s Isolationism by WC Roberts
  • Low Profile by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
  • Speechless Encounter by Shelly Bryant
  • Wendy Darling Has Bad Dreams by Sally Rosen Kindred

Short Stories

  • Read “Absence Makes the Heart” by Donna Glee Williams at MindFlights.
  • Read “After the Days of Dead-Eye ‘Dee” by Pat Cadigan at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “Ah, Spring” by Keith Kennedy at AnotheRealm.
  • Read “Ash and Dust” (Part 1 of 2) by Jennifer Mason-Black at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “Beaumains” by Jo Thomas at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Billy O’Bannon’s Time Travel Dating Service” by Joseph L. Kellogg.
  • Read “Black” by Robert Collins at Sam’s Dot Publishing.
  • Read “Black Betty” by Nisi Shawl at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Clap Your Hands” by Eamonn Murphy at Sam’s Dot Publishing.
  • Read “A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings” by James Alan Gardner at Tor.com.
  • Read “The Empire Never Ended” by Brian Trent at Electric Velocipede.
  • Read “The God Thieves” by Derek Künsken at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Read “Hacker” by Siobhan Shier at Redstone Fiction.
  • Read “Heartless” by Peadar Ó Guilín at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Read “Judgment Day” by Carla Girtman at Luna Station Quarterly.
  • Read “Kitty’s Zombie New Year” by Carrie Vaughn at Tor.com.
  • Read “Kolkata Sea” by Indrapramit Das at World SF.
  • Read “The Last Recall” by Mason Ian Bundschuh at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “The Librarian” by Michelle T. Tan at Philippine Genre Stories.
  • Read “Monsoon Metamorphosis” by Gary Every at Sam’s Dot Publishing.
  • Read “My Other Half” by Maria Stanislav at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Plan B From Outer Space” by Dr. Ace T. Jericho, Rogue Journalist.
  • Read “Portrait of a Courtesan” by Megan Arkenberg at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “The Remote-Controlled Doggirl” by Lara Ek at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “The River’s Children” by Shweta Narayan at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “Second Place” by Sarah A. Drew at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Time, Like Blood, on My Hands” by Eric Del Carlo at Redstone Fiction.
  • Read “Torn Away” by Joe R. Lansdale at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Read “Tortured” by Caragh M. O’Brien at Tor.com.
  • Read “Washishisha” by Robert P. Hansen at Sam’s Dot Publishing.
  • Read “Young Lions” by Zachary Jernigan at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Your Minute Starts Now” by Jacob A. Boyd at Cosmos Magazine.
  • Read “Zeppelin Follies” by Cat Rambo at Crossed Genres.



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