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_Beneath Ceaseless Skies_ Online Magazine _Beneath Ceaseless Skies_ is a free online fantasy magazine. We were runner-up for the Million Writers Award for Best New Online Magazine of 2008.

Read our fiction, download our podcasts, or check out our submissions guidelines at: beneath-ceaseless-skies.com _Beneath Ceaseless Skies_ is an online magazine of literary adventure fantasy, featuring authors such as Marie Brennan, Richard Parks, Saladin Ahmed, Yoon Ha Lee, and more. We publish free online fiction and audio fiction podcasts every two weeks.

From the BCS Archives with BCS #424:"To Embody a Wildfire Starting" by Iona Datt Sharma, BCS #346: "He stayed awake fo...
31/01/2025

From the BCS Archives with BCS #424:

"To Embody a Wildfire Starting" by Iona Datt Sharma, BCS #346:

"He stayed awake for three days, using pencil and paint and volcanic pigment and anything else he had to hand, to render what he'd seen in journalistic detail. In lieu of signature, he scribbled the demi-asuric precept at the base, we shall embody a wildfire starting, and shortly afterwards a dissident mole in the Hegemony central command arranged for it to appear in an official pamphlet. It spread, like a wildfire starting. He was arrested four days later."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-embody-a-wildfire-starting/

Live right now in BCS #424: "The Garden Must Thrive" by returning BCS author Anaea Lay. "They used the construction tha...
30/01/2025

Live right now in BCS #424: "The Garden Must Thrive" by returning BCS author Anaea Lay.

"They used the construction that meant the sibling was a relative of theirs but not of mine. I was instantly intrigued. That would have to mean the sibling had shared Ulkhasti’s lami, their first childhood, but upon returning to Kyne and becoming an adult, had not settled with our family. Ours was an easy family to return to, and I couldn’t imagine anyone would break from us."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-garden-must-thrive/

Live in BCS #424: "Late Autumn on the Pilgrim’s High Road" by Samuel Jensen. "He asked for my story in return, and not ...
28/01/2025

Live in BCS #424: "Late Autumn on the Pilgrim’s High Road" by Samuel Jensen.

"He asked for my story in return, and not just to be polite. I told him a version of it. The best way to lie is to stick to truth’s back like a shadow. I spoke of the rhythms of temple school life, and my teacher, about whom he seemed rather interested. I told him she used to make me sew as a punishment, and he asked my help: one of his pack straps was coming loose. I was surprised he couldn’t sew. “In the army, don’t you have to sew tents and socks?”"

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/late-autumn-on-the-pilgrims-high-road/

New Issue: BCS #424 out today, featuring stories of moving through a place and the motives there by new BCS author Samu...
23/01/2025

New Issue: BCS #424 out today, featuring stories of moving through a place and the motives there by new BCS author Samuel Jensen and returning one Anaea Lay, a From the BCS Archives story by Iona Datt Sharma .bsky.social, behind cover art by Erin Costello.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-424/

If you want to nominate for Hugo Awards, you must own at least a Supporting Membership, to Worldcon 2025 or 2024, BEFORE...
22/01/2025

If you want to nominate for Hugo Awards, you must own at least a Supporting Membership, to Worldcon 2025 or 2024, BEFORE Jan 31.

Don't get left out, if you want to make your voice heard! Seattle 2025's Hugo page isn't up yet, but in this post is a link to where it will be, a list of all eligible BCS stories of 2024 with their category, and a link to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts, if you'd like to consider our stories or our authors' work in other venues.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/11/20/2025-awards-eligible-stories-from-bcs/

From the Archives with BCS #424: "The Boy Who Loved Drowning" by R.K. Duncan, from BCS #272."Bit tucked his body sinki...
21/01/2025

From the Archives with BCS #424: "The Boy Who Loved Drowning" by R.K. Duncan, from BCS #272.

"Bit tucked his body sinking under the black water away into the corner of his mind and went to the other place, where there was no light and he was floating without water. Weeds like ropes caressed him. In the drowning, he moved by falling, feeling what direction he needed to go and letting himself tumble that way. The answers swarmed around his ankles in the dark, warm like fur and soft like mud under his hands."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-boy-who-loved-drowning/

Live in BCS #423: "Half Drowned" by S.L. Harris. "There's about a billion things worse than death in this god-forsaken ...
17/01/2025

Live in BCS #423: "Half Drowned" by S.L. Harris.

"There's about a billion things worse than death in this god-forsaken world. I mean, I thought I'd pretty well made the case that not being dead is the fate worse than death. But I can’t stand the thought of Annemarie flopped on the lake floor, soul sucked dry by the Eel Queen, the last thought stamped forever on her mind that no one would come for her."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/half-drowned/

BCS #424 ebook is out early at Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of places and puz...
16/01/2025

BCS #424 ebook is out early at Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of places and puzzling by Samuel Jensen and Anaea Lay, behind cover art by Erin Costello:

(Buying BCS ebooks, single-issue or subscription at Weightless Books, helps us pay our authors a pro rate and pay our First Readers an honorarium.)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-424/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-424-ebook/dp/B0DST9KMJ3/

Live in BCS #423: "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" by Marie Croke. "Outside the preburial cottage, the pier crea...
15/01/2025

Live in BCS #423: "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" by Marie Croke.
"Outside the preburial cottage, the pier creaked. I saw no shadow under the doorway, yet I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. I imagined, yet again, an anger filtering over his calm countenance. Wondered whether my admission of taking Danai into the Whispermarsh had been a final wedge between us. "Did your father truly leave?" I asked softly. A part of me hoped if he had, it was because he wanted to be kept in the dark about any admissions I made. A larger part of me believed he was done with me, exhausted by the choices I'd made."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-echoes-drifting-through-the-marsh/

New Issue: BCS #423 is out today, featuring stories of family and history and water and self-sacrifice by returning BCS...
09/01/2025

New Issue: BCS #423 is out today, featuring stories of family and history and water and self-sacrifice by returning BCS author Marie Croke and new one S.L. Harris, with a podcast of the Harris and a From the BCS Archives story by R.K. Duncan, behind new cover art by returning BCS artist Erin Costello.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-423/

Live right now in BCS #422: "The Beloved Sisters of the Sun-Bleached Hills" by Shoshana Groom."What she did? What she ...
08/01/2025

Live right now in BCS #422: "The Beloved Sisters of the Sun-Bleached Hills" by Shoshana Groom.

"What she did? What she did?! My dear sister, she was a child. Nora didn’t do anything, nor did your despised Lady Lobar, nor did any of the women you’ve so eagerly watched executed. This cruelty is so foreign to the sympathetic character I know you to have. Well. If you won’t have mercy for these girls, at least be horrified for the crimes they’ve endured and do whatever necessary to assure you never suffer the same fate."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-beloved-sisters-of-the-sun-bleached-hills/

From the BCS Archives with BCS #422: "The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa" by Myna Chang, BCS #393 and podcast BCS #321."...
08/01/2025

From the BCS Archives with BCS #422: "The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa" by Myna Chang, BCS #393 and podcast BCS #321.

"My ghost is trapped in this bedchamber, much as I was in life. It had been my sanctuary, filled with sumptuous fabrics and exotic decor. In death, I understand the lie. We have all been trapped, dragonflies caught in golden amber. Just as my daughter will be, someday, by someone."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-four-gifts-of-empress-lessa/

Live in BCS #422: "Furious Communion" by R.K. Duncan."“I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back unti...
07/01/2025

Live in BCS #422: "Furious Communion" by R.K. Duncan.

"“I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were destroyed.”The absence of my lord from me, from my bed, from my daily presence, is like a chill of deepest winter that will not leave me. It is wrong to be without him now, when I should be swelling with new life as all of nature is. The grass and the corn are springing green. The lambs are born and suckling, and the orchard bees are busy with the blossom, assuring us of fruit to come."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/furious-communion/

As we near year's end, a look back at BCS stories of 2024! "Furious Communion" by R.K. Duncan, BCS #422: "“I pursued my...
31/12/2024

As we near year's end, a look back at BCS stories of 2024!

"Furious Communion" by R.K. Duncan, BCS #422:

"“I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were destroyed.”The absence of my lord from me, from my bed, from my daily presence, is like a chill of deepest winter that will not leave me. It is wrong to be without him now, when I should be swelling with new life as all of nature is. The grass and the corn are springing green. The lambs are born and suckling, and the orchard bees are busy with the blossom, assuring us of fruit to come."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/furious-communion/

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