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Free Fiction Round-Up: July 5, 2011

31 Jul 2011  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to “41 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Edward Morris.
  • Listen to “Big Inches” by Ralph Robert Moore Cast Macabre.
  • Listen to “Dearest Daughter” by Kate Marshall at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “Frankenstein, Frankenstein” by Will McIntosh at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “Frozen Voice” by An Owomoyela at Clarkesworld.
  • Listen to “Greeters” by Zachery Cole at Beam Me Up.
  • Listen to “A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait” by Carrie Vaughn at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “Manifest Error” by Gary Cuba at Beam Me Up.
  • Listen to “P is for Parade, F is for Forever, C is for Crate” by Tim Pratt, Heather Shaw, Greg van Eekout and Jen Reese at Drabblecast.
  • Listen to “Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” by Jason Sanford.
  • Listen to “Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika” by Gord Sellar at Clarkesworld.
  • Listen to “Union Falls” by J. S. Breukelaar at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Listen to “We Go Back” by Tim Pratt at Escape Pod.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • Bleeding Cool offers a preview of Mysterious Ways #1
  • Bleeding Cool offers a preview of Spider-Island: Cloak And Dagger #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Mysterious Ways (EXCLUSIVE) #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Red Skull #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of The Rinse #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Stan Lee’s Starborn vol. 1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Vengeance #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World #1
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Witch Doctor #1
  • Dark Horse offers a preview of The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde #3
  • Newsarama offers a preview of Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Read the flash fiction “The Artwork of the Knid” by John Parke Davis at Daily SciFi.
  • Listen to the flash fiction story “They Call Me Johnny Eggroll” by Matthew Sanborn Smith at Beware the Hairy Mango.
  • Read the flash fiction “At Death’s Door” by Mel Obedoza at NewMyths.
  • Read the flash fiction “Family Never Lets You Down” by Arthur C Carey.
  • Read the flash fiction “Found Them” by Dennis Timothy.
  • Read the flash fiction “His Brother was an Only Child” by Ronald D Ferguson.
  • Read the flash fiction “The House of Screams” by Guy Bellaranti at Golden Vision.
  • Read the flash fiction “Please Return my Son who is In Your Custody” by Helena Bell at Brain Harvest.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Universe in a Nutshell” by Robert Keller.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download The Amulet (Faedra Bennett Custodian) by Alison Pensy for the Kindle.
  • Read an excerpt of Dragon’s Time by Anne McCaffrey at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of Echo by Jack McDevitt at Underwords.
  • Read an excerpt of Hammered by Kevin Hearne at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of Hexed by Kevin Hearne at Scribd.
  • Read an excerpt of Laddertop by Orson Scott Card,Emily Janice Card at Tor.com.
  • Read an excerpt of Clarity by Kim Harrington at Thisisteen.
  • Read an excerpt of Key to Creation (Terra Incognita, Book Three) by Kevin J. Anderson at Underwords.
  • Read an excerpt of The Shadow Men by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon.
  • Read an excerpt of Supernatural Noir by Ellen Datlow at Underwords.

Poetry

  • Confronting the Demon of Hidden Things by by David Sklar
  • Death’s Ship by Richard H. Fay
  • Fairy So Fine by Robin B. Lipinski
  • Fragment Thirty-Seven by Robert Shmigelsky
  • A Greater Moon by Gerald Warfield
  • Homebound by Shweta Narayan
  • I Wish I Could Eat Coals by Stacey Madden

Short Stories

  • Read “Cage the Beast” by Georgina Kamsika at Golden Vision Magazine.
  • Read Of “Casting Pits and Caustic Salts” by Scott H. Andrews at Heroic Fantasy.
  • Read “Chet McKenzie and the Moment of Truth” by Meredith Galman at Allegory.
  • Read “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin at LightSpeed Magazne.
  • Read “The Contributors” by Ian Sales at the author’s website.
  • Read “Coyote at the Crossing” by Rachel Ayers at Chizine.
  • Read “Demon-Fang” by R. Michael Burns at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.
  • Read “The Dome of Florence” by Richard Marsden (Part 2) at Heroic Fantasy.
  • Read “Don’t Be Such a Cynic, Mr. Quimby” by Russ Colson at NewMyths.
  • Read “Dragon Lady” by Evelyn E. Smith at Quasar Dragon.
  • Read “Exiled” by Charles R Richard at Golden Vision Magazine.
  • Read “The Foolish Samurai” by M. Shaw at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Frozen Voice” by An Owomoyela at Clarkesworld.
  • Read “Hereditary” by J. A. Belfield at Golden Vision Magazine.
  • Read “Journey’s End” by Clare M. Clerkin-Russell at Lorelei Signal.
  • Read “Kinetica” by Rachel Bender at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “The Last Archives” by Shane M. Gavin at Short-Story.me.
  • Read “Life Line” by Sandra M. Odell at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Linking Words” by Grace Seybold at Chizine.
  • Read “The Manipulator” by Chris Stageman at Allegory eZine.
  • Read “The Melting of 92A” by Anne Patterson Friedman at Aurora Wolf.
  • Read “The Memory Gatherer” by Morgan Dempsey at Redstone Science Fiction.
  • Read “Meridian” by Tony Peak at NewMyths.
  • Read “Midgard” by M G Kizzia at Ray Gun Revival.
  • Read “The Migratory Pattern of Dancers” by Katherine Sparrow at Giganotosaurus.
  • Read “The Moral Education of a Mad Bastard” by Joe L. Murr.
  • Read “Norn” by Jeremiah Job Levine at Lorelei Signal.
  • Read “One-Eyed Jack’s” by Tracy Canfield at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “0wnz0red” by Cory Doctorow at Redstone Science Fiction.
  • Read “Pearl” by Stephanie Charette at Allegory eZine.
  • Read “Planetsmith” by Chris Stamp and Lynda Williams at AE SciFi.
  • Read “Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly at Escape Pod.
  • Read “The Possibility of Flat Sea Ghosts” by P.F. White at Allegory eZine.
  • Read “Preying for Help” by John C. Tremblay at Allegory eZine.
  • Read “Sightwolf” by Erin Hoffman at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Read “Skinny Jeans of the Zombie Apocalypse” by Nicky Drayden at Allegory.
  • Read “Song Hungers” by Swapna Kishore at NewMyths.
  • Read “The Starship Magellan” by Lee Clark Zumpe at Golden Vision Magazine.
  • Read “Steal Away” by Nyki Blatchley at Golden Vision Magazine.
  • Read “Trapped Inside” of Good by Adam King at Crossed Genres.
  • Read “Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika” by Gord Sellar at Clarkesworld.
  • Read “The Underbelly” by Danielle Abramsohn at Allegory eZine.
  • Read “Union Falls” by J. S. Breukelaar at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Read “An Unnecessary Evil” by Darren Latta at NewMyths.
  • Read “Unpicking the Stitches” by Ilan Lerman at Chizine.
  • Read “The Urn” by John Barnes at Allegory eZine.
  • Read “Visions of Destruction Series, Mixed Media” by Polenth Blake at Chizine.
  • Read “Yerushalom” by S. Ali at Crossed Genres.

Vintage Fiction

  • Download the short story “The Door into Infinity” by Edmond Hamilton from Weird Tales at Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the short story “The Genius” by Con Pederson from IF Worlds of Science Fiction the Internet Archive.
  • Download the novelette “The Red Death of Mars” by Robert Moore Williams (1940) at the Internet Archive.
  • Download “Piper in the Woods” by Philip K. Dick from Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the shorty story “The Tree of Life” by C. L. Moore from Weird Tales at Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the “When the Mountain Shook” by Robert Abernathy from IF Worlds of Science Fiction at Project Gutenberg.
  • Listen to a serialized version of “The Mark of Zorro” by Johnston McCulley (Part 1) at The Classic Tales Podcast.

Zines and Periodicals

  • Aphelion has released its June/July issue, featuring “Another Night at the Chronos Tavern” by David Barber, “Bedtime for Roswell” by P. B. Hampton, “The Hill With an Evil Heart” by C. B. Lovas, and more.



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