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Free Fiction Round-Up: October 9, 2009

9 Oct 2009  Literature

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

  • Listen to Accounting for Dragons at Eric James Stone at PodCastle.
  • Listen to “Clockatrice” by Tanith Lee at Fantasy Magazine.
  • Listen to “Feathertop” by Nathaniel Hawthorne at The Classic Tales Podcast.
  • Listen to “Sleepy Joe” by Marc Laidlaw at Escape Pod.
  • Listen to “Rapunzel” by Tanith Lee at PodCastle.

Flash and Micro Fiction

  • Read the flash fiction Eating It Too by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  • Read the flash fiction From the Book of Monsters: Yaramaz Turkish Carpets.
  • Read the flash fiction Time Net by Duncan Shields at 365 Tomorrows.
  • Read the micro-fiction Grown from Man to Dragon by Megan Arkenberg.
  • Read the micro-fiction Predators and Parasites by Lori Titus at Flashes in the Dark.

More Links

  • Free Speculative Fiction Online has posted a new batch of links.

Novels and Preview Chapters

  • Catch the first episode of Personal Effects: Dark Art’s free audio prequel novella: Personal Effects: Sword of Blood.
  • Read all 25 parts of Robert J. Sawyer’s novel “Rollback” at Between The Covers.

Poetry

  • “Instructions” by Neil Gaiman at Endicott Studio.
  • “Resilience” by Nancy Jane Moore at Book View Cafe.
  • “The Sorrows of Rutherford, the Amazing Talking Dog” by Daniel Wright at Strange Horizons.

Short Stories

  • BSF names Five Science Fiction Stories About Kids With Powerful Objects.
  • Read “And Their Lips Rang with the Sun” by Amal El-Mohtar at Strange Horizons.
  • Read “Domovoi” by M. K. Hobson at DemiMonde, the author’s website.
  • Read “The Empty Quarter” by Jane Routley at Linköpings Universitet.
  • Read “The Fourth Concealment of the Island of Britain” by Katharine Kerr.
  • Read “Galatea” by Vylar Kaftan at Heliotrope Magazine.
  • Read “The Junkyard” by Joe R. Lansdale at the author’s website.
  • Read “Steel Island” by A. K. Sykora at AfterBurn SF.
  • Read “Thieves, Witches, and Gold” at Enter Three Witches.

Zines and Periodicals

  • Apex Magazine has released its October issue, featuring the short story “Ghost Technology from the Sun” by Paul Jessup and more.
  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies has posted issue 27, featuring The Pirate Captain’s Daughter and more, online.
  • Bewildering Stories has posted issue 355 online.

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1 Comment

  1. Cliff Burns said

    am November 2 2009 @ 10:31 am

    Folks:

    I’ve just added an audio page to my blog that features stories, poems, even a novel excerpt–all available for free listening and downloading. Most of the pieces are accompanied by theme and incidental music, giving them a polished, produced sound.

    http://cliffjburns.wordpress.com

    In all, my site now boasts over 250,000 words of fiction culled from my 25 years as a professional writer. Hope folks will pop in for a look…and listen.

    Cliff Burns

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