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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.

Live in BCS #464: "Precogs in the Machine" by Nat Katz. "She looked into his brown eyes, and her vision doubled and tre...
28/08/2026

Live in BCS #464: "Precogs in the Machine" by Nat Katz.

"She looked into his brown eyes, and her vision doubled and trebled: Peter in a tunnel and in an alley covered by blood and walking on what she knew from her readings of distant lands to be grass. She felt she could come unmoored and drift away into those visions, wondered whether she would come back to herself if she did. So she drained her whiskey in a swallow, sighed with relief as the Peters merged back into one, and stuck her hand out."

https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/precogs-in-the-machine/

Live in BCS #464: "The Fall of Father Anatolio" by Lars Wehman Dabney."Anatolio allowed her to argue a little further, ...
27/08/2026

Live in BCS #464: "The Fall of Father Anatolio" by Lars Wehman Dabney.

"Anatolio allowed her to argue a little further, for he could respect that she needed to be heard before ordering the deaths of those who trusted her for only the paltry sake of a distraction. But at last he played the card they both knew he held, which was the antlered lady’s direct and unquestionable orders, at which Ximena fell angrily silent."

https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-fall-of-father-anatolio/

From the Archives with BCS #464: "Fire and Falling" by Andrew Dykstal (who is a finalist for the WSFA Small Pres Award ...
24/08/2026

From the Archives with BCS #464: "Fire and Falling" by Andrew Dykstal (who is a finalist for the WSFA Small Pres Award this year), from BCS #310; a tale of skyborne intrigue not unlike "The Fall of Father Anatolio" by Lars Wehman Dabney in BCS #464 right now.

"Mir slept lightly that night, her back to the bulkhead and a knife in her hand. In that strange region between sleep and waking, a curious doubling overtook her thoughts; an awareness of things her reasoning mind would never have accepted. She woke in a sweat, gasping. Dogwood was still asleep. Even so, Mir felt the pressure of eyes, or the focused awareness of something that lacked them. The feeling was—what? Reassuring? Comforting?"

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/fire-and-falling/

From the BCS Archives with BCS #464: "Quintessence" by Andrew Dykstal (who is a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Awar...
21/08/2026

From the BCS Archives with BCS #464: "Quintessence" by Andrew Dykstal (who is a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award this year, from BCS #324; a story of high mountains and subterfuge not unlike "Precogs in the Machine" by Nat Katz in BCS #464 right now.

"He could hear her voice more clearly now, as though the notepad were merely a synchronizing gear between the two minds caught in his head. She sounded sick and frightened and tired—like a young woman trapped alone in a strange place, not like a witch threatening to castrate him or murder his wife. Guilt blossomed in his mind, followed by pity."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/quintessence/

"The Long Weeping Arms of the Parasitic Horde" by Bee Hyland, BCS #455."The structure of Hyland’s tale adds a different...
20/08/2026

"The Long Weeping Arms of the Parasitic Horde" by Bee Hyland, BCS #455.

"The structure of Hyland’s tale adds a different kind of tilt to the storytell­ing, ...with addendums and sub-addendums that comment on the nature of stories, as well as the nature of Jain herself. It’s an intricately constructed meta-storytelling fantasy, that manages to be both gripping and joyfully strange. Recommended"
—Maria Haskins, Locus

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-long-weeping-arms-of-the-parasitic-horde/

From the Archives with BCS #463: "In Memory of Jianhong, Snake-Devil" by Richard Parks, BCS #226; prequel to his new ...
14/08/2026

From the Archives with BCS #463: "In Memory of Jianhong, Snake-Devil" by Richard Parks, BCS #226; prequel to his new story in BCS #463 right now.

"Father may have been a scholar of the Tao, but he was not above invoking the teachings of Kong Fuzi when it suited him, usually where I was concerned. It was my place to be the innocent, obedient daughter, except in our role of devil hunters when I had to use my martial training to kill something. I took a moment to loosen my jian in its scabbard across my back. This accomplished little except to make me feel a bit better."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/in-memory-of-jianhong-snake-devil/

Live in BCS #463 and podcast BCS 363, guest-narrated by : "My Blue Silk Fan" by Richard Parks (a sequel to two of his ...
13/08/2026

Live in BCS #463 and podcast BCS 363, guest-narrated by : "My Blue Silk Fan" by Richard Parks (a sequel to two of his previous BCS stories).

"“Meaning humans have souls, if not physical immortality. Snake-devils have neither. From my point of view, I am trading lead for gold in what I teach versus what I learn. If this is betrayal, may you always be traitor to me.” I wasn’t so certain about the “lead for gold” aspect of our relationship. After all, I was learning to love the sister I’d never had. That was gold, too."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/my-blue-silk-fan/

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