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Free Fiction Round-Up: May 24, 2011

24 May 2011  Books

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Download “The Thing on the Roof” by Robert E. Howard at Cthulhu Podcast.
  • Read “The Architect of Heaven” by Jason K. Chapman at ClarkesWorld Magazine.
  • Listen to “The Big Bounce” by Walter Tevis at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “The Devil in Gaylord’s Creek” by Sarah Monette at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Listen to “Eight Miles” by Sean McMullen at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “Eliot Wrote” by Nancy Kress at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Listen to “Girls Gone Insane” by John Jasper Owens at Pseudopod.
  • Listen to “Gone Daddy Gone” by Josh Rountree at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “Mohamed’s Angel” by Jack Dann at StarShipSofa.
  • Listen to “Sandmagic” by Orson Scott Card at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Listen to “A Small Matter, Really” by Monte Cook at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “The Truth and All Its Ugly” by Kyle Minor at Miette’s Bedtime Story.
  • Listen to “Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know” by Cat Rambo at ClarkesWorld.

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • Read ever issues of ElfQuest comics on-line, 6500+ pages!
  • CBR offers a preview of Angel Yearbook
  • CBR offers a preview of Cobra #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Image Comics Firsts: Ultra #1
  • CBR offers a preview of Kirby: Genesis #0
  • CBR offers a preview of L.A. Banks’ Vampire Huntress: Dawn and Darkness
  • CBR offers a preview of Lucid HC
  • CBR offers a preview of Tattered Man
  • CBR offers a preview of The Walking Dead Weekly #21
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Eldritch!
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of FF Issue Four
  • Comic Alliance offers a preview of Gates of Gotham

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Listen to the flash fiction story “The Secret Lives of Sinister Shoes”.
  • Listen to the flash fiction story “Such Genius Like You’ve Never Seen Before”.
  • Read the flash fiction “As Fast As You Can” by Nathaniel Lee at Daily SciFi.
  • Read the flash fiction “Bargains & Blackmail” by Lori Titus at Flashes in the Dark.
  • Read the flash fiction “Burn Baby Burn (The World’s Shortest Vampire Romance)” by Jason Sanford at the author’s website.
  • Read the flash fiction “Futureblind” by Justin Short at 365 Tomorrows.
  • Read the flash fiction “The Instructions” by Amanda C. Davis at Daily SciFi.
  • Read the flash fiction “Say Zucchini, and Mean It” by Peter M Ball at Daily SciFi.
  • Read the flash fiction “A Strange Word” by Michael A. Kechula.
  • Read the flash fiction “Van Gogh’s Ear” by Midori Chen at Weidyear.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Download “Heart of the Witch” by Alicia Dean for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
  • Read excerpts of The Worker Prince by Bryan Thomas Schmidt at the author’s website: Prologue, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2.

Poetry

  • If Alice… by Alexandra Seidel
  • I Live in a Land of Milk and Honey by Wanda Waterman
  • One Quarter Gorgon by Helen Marshall
  • Red Riding Hood Runs from the Wolf by Sèphera Girón
  • Tantalus, Reaching Upwards by Gemma Files

Short Stories

  • Read “The Architect of Heaven” by Jason K. Chapman at ClarkesWorld Magazine.
  • Read “Bacchus Anesti” by Maria Alexander at Chizine.
  • Read “Cold Iron and Green Vines” by Wendy Wagner at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Read “The Departure” by Marianne Villanueva at Philippine Genre Stories.
  • Read “The Devil in Gaylord’s Creek” by Sarah Monette at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Read “Eliot Wrote” by Nancy Kress at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “Fulghum’s Synthitar” Kevin Kvas at Kasma Magazine.
  • Read “Hey, Sarge” and Regis Toomey by Mort Castle at Chizine.
  • Read “Letters of Fire” by Margaret Ronald at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
  • Read “Kapre: A Love Story” by Erin Chupeco at Philippine Genre Stories.
  • Read “Pound Rots” in Fragrant Harbour by Lisa Morton at Chizine.
  • Read “Remains” by Siobhan Carroll at AE SciFi.
  • Read “Sandmagic” by Orson Scott Card at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Read “Scales” by Alastair Reynolds at Lightspeed Magazine.
  • Read “The Showdown with Diablo” by John H. Stevens at Raygun Revival.
  • Read “Supernatural” by Nadia Bulkin at Chizine.
  • Read “To Be the Queen” by Shelly Li at Kasma SF.
  • Read “Warts and All” by Mark Morris at Hub Magazine.
  • Read “Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know” by Cat Rambo at ClarkesWorld.
  • Read “Writing Hell” by Matt Duvall at Chizine.

Vintage Fiction

  • Download “Nonstop to Mars” by Jack Williamson (1939) from Argosy Weekly.
  • Download “Operation Haystack” by Frank Herbert at Project Gutenberg.
  • Download the July 1931 issue of Astounding Stories at Project Gutenberg.



  • http://www.bryanthomasschmidt.net Bryan Thomas Schmidt

    Thanks so much for the signal boost for “The Worker Prince.”

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