Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts presents audio adaptations of short stories published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine. The magazine focuses on literary adventure fantasy and other secondary-world fantasy fiction. Each episode features a narrated story, often read by voice actors, drawn from the magazine's issues. Listeners get a curated selection of short speculative fiction in audio form.
Episodes
BCS 367: Clocksong
By Katarina Garcia, from Issue #467, Eighteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Inanimate, they would call the bells. Celara does not understand how they use the word.More info »
BCS 366: Sous Lumière Aigre
By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #466 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.“I’m not a child,” she said, putting fists to her hips the way children did. “I’ll have you know I’m almost twelve.”More info »
BCS 365: The Eldest Bird of Paradise
By Denzel Xavier Scott, from Issue #465 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA special 90-minute audio novelette, narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.That’s why I can only fail. I’m never alone. I’m never disconnected from the elaborate system that Phoenix erected and programmed eons ago that preserves this bound life of mine.More info »
BCS 364: My Blue Silk Fan
by Richard Parks, narrated by Folly Blaine, from Issue #463 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies
BCS 363: Dreams in Burnished Silver
By Christine Hanolsy, from Issue #462 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I paced the day away instead of sleeping, as if you’d left your lamp alight beside my cot. More info »
BCS 362: Waiting for The Yellow Ships
By Edward Hodge, from Issue #460 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.I tried to control our son, just like I’d tried to control your worship of Ukh.More info »
BCS 361: The Voice and Her Knife
By AnaMaria Curtis, from Issue #458 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The butcher spends his early mornings making contact with anyone who knows anyone who might be a hunter, who might know where he can find a fresh kill.More info »
BCS 360: The Sparrow Tree
By Alma Alexander, from Issue #456 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.He brought the Empress there to show the now-bejeweled tree when the leaves turned bronze in the autumn.More info »
BCS 359: The Sea Child
By Justin Wesley Ferguson, from Issue #453 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Gerda set the dress aside and tried to do the same with the stirrings of dread in her stomach.More info »
BCS 358: Hollow in The Hope
By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #451 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA special one-hour audio novelette, narrated by Tina Connolly.They should use those hours wisely, and not in seeking counsel—or worse, comfort—from a woman long dead.More info »
BCS 357: Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #450 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine—she the ship recalls stories she never read of women and men in rivers weighed down their pockets full of stones—More info »
BCS 356: Sing
By Jules Bly, from Issue #448 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.Do not stop singing. If your voice fails, the world vanishes.More info »
BCS 355: A Good Brother
By Anne Wilkins, from Issue #447 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine“Perhaps,” I lie.More info »
BCS 354: The Crow’s Second Tale
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #445 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Kiris was only five years old and had not even started training as a magician when she learned a song that told of a crow that only knew one story.More info »
BCS 353: My Sincere Apologies For the Demon
By Adrian Ward, from Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRegarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame.More info »
BCS 352: Pools of Light at the Center of the World
By Will McMahon, from Issue #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine...to find that he now could not be certain of which way he had come...More info »
BCS 351: Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth
By Kate Francia, from Issue #441 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She could do this simple thing: walk through her door.More info »
BCS 350: Postman, Soldier, Traitor
By Vijayalaxmi Samal, from Issue #439 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.There is nowhere else he could go. He will go where the letter takes him.More info »
BCS 349: Out of Draconia
By Alma Alexander, from Issue #436 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.That was why I did it. That was why, when she turned eleven, I said to her, “Go to Draconia. Look for your egg.”More info »
BCS 348: The Feather Tree
By KJ Kabza, from Issue #435 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Loory felt a corresponding restless within himself—a shifting, a re-opening, of places that felt both predestined and newly made.More info »
BCS 347: Unbeaten
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #432 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.I would be a sword no longer.More info »
BCS 346: The Tale of How You Were Born
By Eleanor Elizabeth Fog, from Issue #431 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Of all the follies I'd expected, this wasn’t one of them. “You want to carry this parcel that’s been dumped on you without having any say in the matter?”More info »
BCS 345: The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King
By Jelena Dunato, from Issue #429 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He approached Katarina in one smooth move, too fast for her eyes to follow. He smelled of wet leaves and dark forest earth.More info »
BCS 344: Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory
By Nicole L. Soper Gorden, from Issue #427 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But no visitor here would dare turn her in, whether they left with a cloud or not.More info »
BCS 343: Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows
By Somto Ihezue, from Issue #425 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Opeyemi Ogundiran.They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself.More info »
BCS 342: Half Drowned
By S.L. Harris, from Issue #423 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI can’t stand the thought of Annemarie flopped on the lake floor, the last thought stamped forever on her mind that no one would come for her.More info »
BCS 341: Speaking the Sun
By Thomas Bales, from Issue #421 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThey say that if I stop speaking, the sun will not rise.More info »
BCS 340: Three Drops in the River
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #418 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.It was fair enough, but Alor couldn't say he fancied sleeping on a stone bridge with a lion and no naiads below.More info »
BCS 338: Nine Tenths of the Law
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Someone yelling inside my head gives me a migraine for the rest of the day.More info »
BCS 339: Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn
By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.The necromancers' wine wasn't merely dark; it sat in the cup like glistening black oil.More info »
BCS 337: After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland
By Max Franciscovich, from Issue #416 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.We are what he made us; you must know this.More info »
BCS 335: Conversation with a Dragon
By Cat Rambo, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Cat Rambo, the author.“I don’t know if anyone would have gone in search after this dragon if it hadn’t been for the girl.”More info »
BCS 336: At the Stopping Place
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Jinnie, since it was clear no-one was paying attention to her, darted out to scrub away the human’s footprints.More info »
BCS 334: The Wicks Whisper
By Emily C. Skaftun, from Issue #411 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Even so, I’m tempted to light my new soul candle. Mom.More info »
BCS 333: An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor
By Cara Masten DiGirolamo, from Issue #409 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The hole would not have lingered with me if I had not once before seen a map marred with an unexpected hole that aligned with a place that had developed strange properties.More info »
BCS 332: Gods and Monsters and Brothers
By J. Bridges, from Issue #407 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He was a shell of his former self by the time I found him.More info »
BCS 331: A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #406 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I could have refused. A year earlier, two years, I would have.More info »
BCS 330: A Reflection of Sun
By Liana Richmond, from Issue #405 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore.He had taken hold of her, shooing away the fish pulling off bits of her softened flesh, and had guided her to shore.More info »
BCS 329: The Coffee of Torcat
By Devin Miller, from Issue #404 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore."I drank a cup of ordinary coffee once with the Archduke of Holal," Osa said to the girl. "I need to drink it again."More info »
BCS 328: The Dust Eater
By Adam Breckenridge, from Issue #403 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Ash may be ash, but it still has a soul, and the shreds of Offas that had been reborn in me sung to the ashes’ tune.More info »
BCS 327: Tell the King
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #401 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I imagine my King on the spaceship that would take us away from the only home we’ve ever known in search of a new one. Most of us will live, but the King will die.More info »
BCS 326: The Rug-Maker and the Wonder Collector
By Emily McIntyre, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.The black pupil—property of XCorp, almost human but not quite, recording every curly hair that falls over my face, every flutter of my breath, every tremble of my lips.More info »
BCS 325: Doctor Souvenir
By Elly Bangs, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.But what kind of weapon could possibly be made out of bittersweet memory?More info »
BCS 324: Willow Wood
By Linda Niehoff, from Issue #398 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Music like that doesn’t belong inside. It belongs to outside in the night. Quivering in the air with every crawling thing.More info »
BCS 323: What Will Bring You Home
By Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #396 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.At the table with you are three fairies, their clothing just as ridiculous and just as shimmering as your own.More info »
BCS 322: Something That Has Never Touched the Ground
By Marilyn Hope, from Issue #394 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Cat Rambo.Rang has wielded a bow since he was eight, and taking his aim at the King is a sleek and innate motion, like brushing Sunder's dark hair behind one ear to rest his lips on his temple.More info »
BCS 321: The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa
By Myna Chang, from Issue #393 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.My ghost is trapped in this bedchamber, much as I was in life.More info »
BCS 320: The Light of Setting Suns
By Samuel Chapman, from Issue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson and Michael J. DeLuca.An incredible silence ensues. Cyfris lets the quiet stretch on long enough for Dovan to know she has caught him.More info »
BCS 319: Where the River Comes From
By Kaitlyn Zivanovich, from Issue #391 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Sandra Espinoza.When Rviv is twelve, she is walking through the town square with her Cuialo crechemates when a stranger hails her in her mother’s language. She stops; her friends do not.More info »
BCS 318: Holding Back the Darkness
By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But in that darkness, there is also power.More info »
BCS 317: Interlude: Shelter From the Storm
By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #389 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.“Those with power who do not act? I do judge them.”More info »
BCS 316: Merciful Even to Scorpions
By Kay Chronister, from Issue #387 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Sandra Espinoza.Maribel should have known that the new pig-boy would have to be named soon.More info »
BCS 315: Disassembling Light
By Kel Coleman, from Issue #385 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore.He pointed out more mistakes; some amateur, others he still made on occasion.More info »
BCS 314: Eleanora of the Bones
By Kat Howard, from Issue #383 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Eleanora loved the ossuary best as evening fell.More info »
BCS 313: The Whisper of That Blood
By Maria Haskins, from Issue #382 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I loved my Mama. I know she did the best she could. But she was wrong to leave my brother here.More info »
BCS 312: The Cuckoo of Vrežna Mountain
By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #380 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by the author.I knew the power the Godless were imbued with from childhood, to detect the parasite that had destroyed our gods.More info »
BCS 311: Blooms
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #378 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Most of what she planted in the garden grew now, even if cabbages cried in the night and tomatoes disappeared.More info »
BCS 310: The Changeling and the Child
By Pooja Peravali, from Issue #377 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.How does one explain it to one such as her, how motherhood tugs at you?More info »
BCS 309: Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea
By Kelsey Hutton, from Issue #376 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Laurie McDougall.She’d hoped to sew a dress powerful enough to remind the queen who the queen claimed as kin, and who claimed her in return.More info »
BCS 308: A Forcible Calm
By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #375 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.All four were Brothers of Dule, magicians of a shared heritage and shared interests, her enemies—and yet there might be fissures.More info »
BCS 307: Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya
By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #373 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Marie Brennan.The warp is Constant Ivan, strong and steady. The weft is Clever Natalya, darting here and there.More info »
BCS 306: Half-Spent Was the Night
By Gretchen Tessmer, from Issue #371 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She finds herself muttering to Jonah, “What if Leah never knows what any color but grey looks like?”More info »
BCS 305: By Hand and By Heart
By Tina Connolly, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.And this was apparently the point where she was supposed to feel lucky.More info »
BCS 304: He Stays Among the Commots
By Christopher Rowe, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.All the cantrevs of his homeland had been burned.More info »
BCS Audio Vault 041: A Nickel For The Burlap Man
By Patty Templeton, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, detailing the feel and inspirations for the story’s world of Shady Grove.The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.More info »
BCS Audio Vault 040: Portrait of the Artist
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #369 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by narrator Carla Kissane, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.“I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious.More info »
BCS Audio Vault 039: The Thought That Counts
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #368 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by audiobook and podcast narrator Heath Miller, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name.More info »
BCS 303: Playing God
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Try thinking about it, the Archer God had said, so I did.More info »
BCS 302: Fire and Brimstone in the Twin Cities
By James Morrow, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Lot revisits his tankard and frowns thoughtfully.More info »
BCS 301: Of the Body
By Eugenia Triantafyllou, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I am terrified of the moment when Osarah and I will hunt down the animal that bears our child and kill it.More info »
BCS 300: Five Aspects of River and Sky
By Adam R. Shannon, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineFeaturing Scott H. Andrews, Michael J. DeLuca, Tina Connolly, M.K. Hobson, and Summer Fletcher.Annell's throws always rose high enough that the skies accepted her sacrifice. Why did she have to leave instead of me?More info »
BCS Audio Vault 038: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power
By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #364 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, explaining elements of the Birdverse world and culture and characters that appear in the novella and how one of the characters connects with the new Birdverse novel The Unbalancing.Across great distances I hear her voice rolling over the sand, traipsing gently above bones of impossible beasts that
BCS 299: Imagine a Thief with Golden Fire in Their Voice
By Riley Neither, from Issue #363 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I am not saying I don’t have the power. There’s no point in denying that. I’m saying I don’t have the right.More info »
BCS Audio Vault 037: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #362 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineWith an introduction from the author, explaining their beliefs on the story’s theme of individual freedom and autonomy.The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sapo kneels by the doe and feels for the outlines of the little one with her fingers. A gasp escapes her when it moves under the dead doe's skin.More in
BCS 298: How to Be a True Woman While Piloting a Steam-Engine Balloon
By Valerie Hunter, from Issue #360 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Amelia is the best pilot the Territorial Revolutionists have. That's not boasting, it’s just true.More info »
BCS 297: Different Kinds of Thorn
By Devin Miller, from Issue #358 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.She has offered a dangerous thing, but oh, it is a sweet one too. To lie with a dryad, queen of the wood, would be an experience unlike any other.More info »
BCS Audio Vault 036: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch
By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #357 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations in complicity with institutional systems and activism risking that status for beliefs or people you believe in.It burns like dust in Sere’s eyes to hear Tashet take her name back, to keep for herself.Mor
BCS 296: I Will Sing Your White Bones Home
By Cat Hellisen, from Issue #356 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He was speared by a finless, and we watched his head rot at the edge of the sea.More info »
BCS 295: The Mountains of Another World, Where Eagles May Fly Free
By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #355 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Time is the greatest sorcerer, and eventually it will force him into a new shape: a sea-bloated corpse.More info »
BCS 294: Valor Bones
By Derrick Boden, from Issue #354 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The monster-thing watched with great interest. Leti turned the page and started to read.More info »
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