Podcasts · Fiction · Arts

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine

300 episodes

Audio podcasts of short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine.

Episodes page 5 of 6

  1. BCS 183: The Wind Shall Blow

    · 39 min

    By Gregory Norman Bossert, from Issue #209, Eighth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Alasdair Stuart. While she sang, the crowded room was quiet, through her gift the…

  2. BCS 182: Abere and the Poisoner

    · 27 min

    By Jonathan Edelstein, from Issue #208 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.—What will she do? She will love you, and she will eat you. No, you can't cut through the reeds. More info »

  3. BCS 181: To Rise No More

    · 42 min

    By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Liz Duffy Adams. No matter how many times she watched it, Ada could not see how the transformation happened. More info »

  4. BCS Audio Vault 025: And Blow Them at the Moon

    · 1 h 06 min

    By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. Magrat was right. This man stood at the heart of it. More info »

  5. BCS 180: The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles

    · 36 min

    By Rachael K. Jones, from Issue #203 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Setsu Uzumé. One, two, three eggs into her mouth, one sharp bite, and the clear, viscous glair ran down her throat. More…

  6. BCS 179: Mortal Eyes

    · 20 min

    By Ann Chatham, from Issue #202 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. The scrape and clatter of steps on stone was replaced by the rush of wind beating against her face with the…

  7. BCS 178: The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery

    · 1 h 09 min

    By Catherynne M. Valente, from Issue #201 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Heath Miller.For the sake of the beautiful Dogaressa, I took up my father’s battered old pipe and punty. More info »

  8. BCS 177: Shadow’s Weave

    · 41 min

    By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #200, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. And we won't be lovers, Tamalat thought, unless I can restore your shadow. She knew better…

  9. BCS 176: Laws of Night and Silk

    · 55 min

    By Seth Dickinson, from Issue #200, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. They pass through everything that will be lost if they fail. More info »

  10. BCS 175: They Said the Desert

    · 38 min

    By A.T. Greenblatt, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine "This isn't your choice," said Jade. "You're dead." More info »

  11. BCS Audio Vault 024: The Topaz Marquise

    · 35 min

    By Fran Wilde, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. I could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz. More info »

  12. BCS 174: Whale-Oil

    · 29 min

    By Sylvia V. Linsteadt, from Issue #198 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Altair stood at the edge of the bay holding a blue salmon oil lamp with wick and flame made of fallen…

  13. BCS 173: The Sweetest Skill

    · 47 min

    By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A 2016 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast. Narrated by John Meagher. My soul animated the river’s gift. I…

  14. BCS Audio Vault 023: No Sweeter Art

    · 39 min

    By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by audiobook and podcast narrator John Meagher. My soul sunk beneath the platform planks and into a sturdy ox figurine with wisps of…

  15. BCS 172: Sea of Dreams

    · 21 min

    By Alter S. Reiss, from Issue #196 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Over his years on the island, he had been given nine other books, but they had become outworn, nothing in them to distract him. More info »

  16. BCS Audio Vault 022: The Breath of War

    · 48 min

    By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. She would have run, but her legs betrayed her—a contraction, locking her in place,…

  17. BCS 170: A Salvaging of Ghosts

    · 32 min

    By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly. Thuy deactivates the suits' propulsion units and watches her daughter's remains,…

  18. BCS 171: The Mountains His Crown

    · 43 min

    By Sarah Pinsker, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine; a special bonus podcast episode for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 3. With soldiers, with…

  19. BCS Audio Vault 021: The Book of Locked Doors

    · 45 min

    By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. She cursed herself for freezing up and ruminating when the proper response was to react.…

  20. BCS 169: Call and Answer, Plant and Harvest

    · 25 min

    By Cat Rambo, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson; a special bonus podcast episode for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 3. The glass-marbled plaza…

  21. BCS 168: Foxfire, Foxfire

    · 51 min

    By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca. Nuclear physics was not typically a fox specialty, although my mother had allowed…

  22. BCS 167: And the Blessing of the Angels Came Upon Them

    · 34 min

    By Dean Wells, from Issue #193 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Consuming the native crustaceans had given rise to bone cancers and rotting ulcers of the skin, from which death was a cruel relief. More info »

  23. BCS 166: The Three Dancers of Gizari

    · 45 min

    By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #192 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Except that I learned that if they spoke truth, it was not to me. More info »

  24. BCS 165: Blessed are Those Who Have Seen and Do Not Believe

    · 37 min

    By D.K. Thompson, from Issue #191 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Read by Ian Stuart. Despite my profession, I have never considered myself to be a holy man. More info »

  25. BCS 164: The Mama Mmiri

    · 30 min

    By Walter Dinjos, from Issue #190 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Read by the author. I longed for someone with whom I could engage in our papaya-pipe-gun battles in the surrounding forests. More info »

  26. BCS 163: A Killer of Dead Men

    · 45 min

    By David Tallerman, from Issue #189 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by John Meagher, who also narrated BCS 110: Ill-Met at Midnight, a previous tale of Otranto Onsario. Otranto knew better than to…

  27. BCS Audio Vault 020: In the Age of Iron and Ashes

    · 40 min

    By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #187 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat. More info »

  28. BCS 162: Bloodless

    · 31 min

    By Cory Skerry, from Issue #186 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine But she wouldn't let him make it through the gate; the inside guards were there to deal with travelers. Kamalija was here to deal with…

  29. BCS 161: Unearthly Landscape by a Lady

    · 28 min

    By Rebecca Campbell, from Issue #185 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Read by Liz Duffy Adams. I could not imagine that my charge could conceive something so strange, so unpleasant. More info »

  30. BCS 160: A Careful Fire

    · 30 min · Explicit

    By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #184 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. She bursts each night when he leaves her. She does not wash the juice from her skin but hides the blue…

  31. BCS 159: The Sons of Vincente

    · 23 min

    By I.L. Heisler, from Issue #183, Seventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The other hand held aloft his trophy—the severed head of my mother. More info »

  32. BCS 158: Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken

    · 37 min

    By Suzanne Palmer, from Issue #182 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Dan Rabarts. It was more water than ever should be in one place, something so vast he scarcely could find the words. "Oh," he…

  33. BCS 157: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud

    · 52 min

    By Fran Wilde, from Issue #181 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine. Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much. More info »

  34. BCS 156: Seasons Set in Skin

    · 31 min

    By Caroline M. Yoachim, from Issue #179 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Tina Connolly.Horimachi's own tattoos were from before the war, when black ink was made of soot instead of faery blood.…

  35. BCS 155: Stone Prayers

    · 32 min

    By Kate Alice Marshall, from Issue #178 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Mattar comes to the house of Anaharesh in search of a single word; a word to end a war. More info »

  36. BCS 154: Court Bindings

    · 19 min

    By Karalynn Lee, from Issue #177 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by M.K. Hobson. The sparrow had too diminutive a mind to realize it could serve you longer by taking time to eat and sleep. More…

  37. BCS 153: The Girl with Golden Hair

    · 29 min

    By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.“Where are all the people?” she asked. I neighed, unsure. Why would they hide in their caves when two…

  38. BCS Audio Vault 019: The Nine-Tailed Cat

    · 17 min

    By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails. More info »

  39. BCS 152: The Warriors, The Mothers, The Drowned

    · 33 min

    By Kay Chronister, from Issue #175 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Ana thought the land of the dead would be empty, but it is full to bursting. More info »

  40. BCS 151: Two to Leave

    · 29 min

    By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #174 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The Drought Guard had sent twelve-and-twelve of their own after me, which might have held numerological significance if I still cared about…

  41. BCS 150: The Punctuality Machine, Or, A Steampunk Libretto

    · 40 min

    By Bill Powell, from Issue #173 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A 2016 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast. A special large-cast reading in honor of our 150th episode,…

  42. BCS 149: Swallowing Silver

    · 48 min

    By Erin Cashier, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine A special Weird Western podcast. John Halpern knew it should be a heavy weight on his conscience, to wake up…

  43. BCS Audio Vault 018: Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride

    · 28 min

    By Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. So when Mister Hadj said that a stone in the road told him where we'd find Parson…

  44. BCS 148: The Fires of Mercy

    · 33 min

    By Spencer Ellsworth, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The assassin, the mother, and the child fled into the desert. More info »

  45. BCS Audio Vault 017: Hangman

    · 34 min

    By Erin Cashier, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it. More info »

  46. BCS 147: The Sixth Day

    · 20 min

    By Sylvia Anna Hivén, from Issue #170 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Except one day, Cassie ain't telling me what will vanish. She tells me something's coming. More info »

  47. BCS 146: Sun, Stone, Spear

    · 43 min

    By Carrie Vaughn, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Narrated by Folly Blaine. We wait until there is only the sound of blowing wind and the cry of a jackdaw. I nod, Elu nods back. More info »

  48. BCS Audio Vault 016: Blighted Heart

    · 31 min

    By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Introduced by the author. His eyes, shining yellow in the night, were the ones I remembered from the day I had lost my heart. More…

  49. BCS 145: A Screech of Gulls

    · 32 min

    By Alyc Helms, from Issue #168 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Tutti loves only three things in this world, and he loves them well: his birds, his liquor, and Gemma, the junkmonger who keeps the stall next…

  50. BCS 144: The King in the Cathedral

    · 44 min

    By Rich Larson, from Issue #167 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine “How disappointing I must seem,” he said at last. “I didn’t know I’d become a folk figure. I would have grown a great beard.” More info »

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them. Explicit shows are for adult profiles only, and children’s profiles hear only children’s shows. More about this list.