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Free Fiction Round-Up: July 19, 2011

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “The Black Stone” by Robert Howard (Part 2) at the Cthulhu Podcast.
  • Listen to “Gag: a Collective Detective Chronicle” by JRD Skinner at FlashPulp.
  • Listen to “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath The Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “The Shadows of Calcutta” by Phil Rossi at Peculiar Occurrences.
  • Listen to “Stereogram of the Gray Fort” by Paul M. Berger at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “Stone Wall Truth” by Caroline Yoachim at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “Sweet Sixteen” by Kat Howard at LightSpeed Magazine.
  • Listen to “The Talisman” by Heather McDougal at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin” by Adam Callaway at Ceaseless Skies.
  • Listen to “The Wolves of Brooklyn” by Catherynne M. Valente at Fantasy Magazine.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • CBR offers a preview of 100 Penny Press: Hammer of the Gods #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Avengelyne #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Daredevil #1
  • CBR offers a preview of DC Retroactive: Batman – The ’70s #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Deadlands: Massacre at Red Wing #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Nikolai Dante: Too Cool to Kill
  • CBR offers a preview of One Soul
  • CBR offers a preview of Mass Effect Invasion #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Mass Effect Invasion #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Team Angel 100 Page Spectacular #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Ultimate Comics X-Men #1

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Jimmy Holds the Line” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
  • Read the flash fiction “News of the End of the World” by Anthony Cuthbertson.
  • Read the flash fiction “Still Life” by A.C. Wise at Daily Science Fiction.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Succession” by David Scholes at AntipodeanSF.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Wishwriter’s Wife” by Ian McHugh at Daily SciFi.
  • Read the flash fiction “Your Child in Space” by Alia Gee at 365tomorrows.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download Comic Books 101 by Scott Tipton for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download Creating Comics from Start to Finish by Buddy Scalera for the Kindle.
  • Download Demon Girl (The Rae Wilder Novels) by Penelope Fletcher for Kindles.
  • Download Ghoul by for Phaedra Weldon the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download Superheroes: The Best of Philosophy and Pop Culture edited by William Irwin for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Download Star Wars: The Lost Tribe of the Sith: Pantheon by John Jackson Miller.
  • Read an excerpt of Fury of the Phoenix by Cindy Pon at Harperteen.
  • Read an excerpt of Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon at Harperteen.
  • Read an excerpt of Star Wars: Choices of One by Timothy Zahn at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of The Waking: Spirits of the Noh by Thomas Randall.

Poetry

  • The Internet in Heaven by Sara Polsky

Short Stories

  • Download “IRC: A Helping Hand” by Julian Tang at Concatenation.
  • Read “And Her Eyes Sewn Shut with Unicorn Hair” by Rosamund Hodge at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Read “Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot” by Claire Humphrey at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “The Dala Horse” by Michael Swanwick by Michael Swanwick.
  • Read “Godot Isn’t Coming” by Eric Del Carlo at Ray Gun Revival.
  • Read “Goldar the Unwieldy” by Samuel Mae at Short-Story.me.
  • Read “A Handful of Earth” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “The Infinite Onion” by David Steffen at AE SciFi.
  • Read “Malvar” by Paolo Chikiamco at Philippine Genre Stories.
  • Read “The Representative” by T.N.Collie at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “The School” by Lavie Tidhar at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “Standing in Line at the End of the World: How One Man Became a God As Told to Isha Kiss” by Malon Edwards at Expanded Horizons.
  • Read “Stone Wall Truth” by Caroline Yoachim at Escape Pod.
  • Read “Sweet” by Marguerite Alcazaren de Leon (Part 2) at Phillipine Genre Stories.
  • Read “Sweet Sixteen” by Kat Howard at LightSpeed Magazine.
  • Read “To Serve A God” by Karen L. Kobylarz at MindFlights.
  • Read “The Wolves of Brooklyn” by Catherynne M. Valente at Fantasy Magazine.

Vintage Fiction

  • Download the the short story “The Scapegoat” by Richard Maples (June 1956) from Galaxy Science Fiction at Project Gutenberg.
  • Read the short story “Guerrilla Mural of a Siren’s Song” by Ernest Hogan (Part 2, Part 3) from Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine at More Red Ink.

Zines and Periodicals

  • Download Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #37, featuring “Apoidroids” by Douglas Thompson, “Devilry at the Hanging Tree Inn” by David Tallerman, and more.



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