Beneath Ceaseless Skies - BCS 129: Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands by Vylar Kaftan
I bowed my obedience, but inside my hopes blossomed like a rare evening flower. He had let slip a cl...
StoriesBeneath Ceaseless Skies - Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands by Vylar Kaftan
He often tortured the girls, throwing their severed hands into the tar pit. The girls screamed until...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Manor of Lost Time by Richard Parks
Let’s get something straight right now—her name at the time, her proper name, was Driana. Not “The E...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Secret of Pogopolis by Matthew Bey
By the standards of The City, a place of manic revelry and combustible enthusiasms, Carneby Fleivorw...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Scry by Anne Ivy
By dawn, the house of Eyr Eth Lun had fallen. Dead soldiers and laser-cauterized pieces of soldiers ...
The Bonedrake's Penance, by Yoon Ha Lee
Growing up, it never occurred to me that everyone didn’t have a bonedrake mother, or, in the early d...
We, As One, Trailing Embers by E. Catherine Tobler
We two live as one, but also as two when we are able. When night deepens and the park grounds grow q...
The God Thieves by Derek Künsken
Mateo del Monte Feltro was with his young daughter Luciana, praying to the god who would not fight, ...
The Use and the Need by M. Bennardo
From three blocks away, Tom Brown could hear the big bass drum from the Women’s Christian Temperance...
Salvage by Margaret Ronald
Colonel Dieterich closed the maintenance panel below the airship’s secondary propeller, sending a pu...
Gone Sleeping by Heather Clitheroe
People liked to say that Messir Wong was not quite as wide as he was tall, but when he rode his donk...
The Circus of King Minos' Masque by Michael J. DeLuca
Propelled by the force of the centaur’s blow, the cyclops’ lifeless body shattered a section of plat...
Pale by Kathryn Allen
The pitchfork stands like a flagpole, both tines thrust so deep in the Deputy’s belly that it didn’t...
Between Two Treasons by Michael J. DeLuca
A calloused hand in the small of Periphas’ back awoke him. The desert dawn beat against his eyelids....
Hangman by Erin Cashier
The warped beams of my shack couldn’t keep out the sawing of the locust song outside, and so I didn’...
A Serpent in the Gears by Margaret Ronald
We unearthed the serpent’s corpse just before the Regina reached the first gun emplacement, ten thou...
Dragon's-Eyes by Margaret Ronald
“It’s an easy question.” Skald leaned across to adjust the boot. “All Michel wants to know is if you...
Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 2/22/2013 - SF Signal
What’s special about today’s free fiction? Beneath Ceaseless Skies #115 – February 21, 2013 I’m linking to my free science fiction short story, “Peshtigo”, since…
Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/17/2013 - SF Signal
And so it continues… Part 4 of The Raven’s Head Dagger and the Custom of the Seas. What’s special about today’s free fiction? Beneath Ceaseless Skies #121 – May 16, 20…
Beneath Ceaseless Skies : : Table of Contents - Current Issue
The Sword of Loving Kindness, Pt. I by Chris Willrich. Sun Magic, Earth Magic by David D. Levine.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies : : Submissions Guidelines
Update: new higher word-count limit for submissions: 15,000 words. (Unlocked as a stretch goal from the BCS 250th Issue Subscription Drive. Thank you!) What We Want Beneath Ceaseless Skies publishes “literary adventure fantasy”: stories with a secondary-world setting and some traditional or classic fantasy feel, but written with a literary approach. Secondary-World Setting: We want stories set in what Tolkien called a “secondary world”: some other world that is different from our own primary world in some way. It could be different in terms of zoology (non-human crea...