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_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.

14/10/2025

Live in BCS #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue: "The Third Movement of Time" by RJ Taylor.

"Winter heard nothing unusual, but she listens harder and there is indeed a sound different than twittering. It is the song of pipes on the wind. It is no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her chest the stirrings of nostalgia, the memory of a song not yet heard. The pipes turn into singing, a man’s voice, or a very deep alto, too far off to distinguish the words."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-third-movement-of-time/

13/10/2025

Live in BCS #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue: "The Last of Atlantis" by James Morrow.

"The philosopher turned to v***r, and the sunsphere led me away, eventually bringing me back to where I’d begun, the garden of Platonic solids. Once again cubeness beguiled me, and once again I lifted its shining, chirping, three-dimensional shadow from the crater floor. Spontaneously I asked the sunsphere if I was permitted to bear the omnicube away. The sphere bobbed in assent."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-last-of-atlantis/

10/10/2025

From the Archives w BCS #442: "Valis Seeker Fierefiz" by Michael Echeverri Rivera, BCS #395, a strange classically inspired quest story not unlike the James Morrow and Will McMahaon stories in BCS #442.

"27. Parsifal confessed to me that she has never dreamed of Valis. Not once. In her youth, she learned of the city in a book: a philosophical dialogue where a poet, a knight, a musician, and a madman argue about the nature of reality while awaiting the arrival of a fifth person. Near the end, the madman recounts the story of Valis, which the others think is nonsense. Parsifal disagreed, and the city quickly became an obsession (she herself used the word 'obsession'). She said all this while pacing back and forth, refusing to look me in the face until the end."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/valis-seeker-fierefiz/

09/10/2025

New stories: the Patrick Samphire and RJ Taylor stories in BCS #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue are live today, alongside the James Morrow and Will McMahon stories and McMahon podcast released last week, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-442/

09/10/2025

BCS #443 ebook out early today at Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward, cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-443/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-443-ebook/dp/B0FTW4M96B/

07/10/2025

Live right now in BCS #442 and podcast BCS 352: "Pools of Light at the Center of the World" by Will McMahon.

"...and he now wandered alone through the green and bright land of his desire, its air thick with the heady buzz of life, of unseen life, and he paused again and crouched, the joints of his body creaking and popping in a pain that was also relief, so that he could stare at a bright yellow flower, the center of which he now realized bore a resemblance to nothing so much as the burning sun overhead..."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pools-of-light-at-the-center-of-the-world/

02/10/2025

New Issue: BCS #442, our Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue, featuring stories by James Morrow and Will McMahon out today, stories by Patrick Samphire and RJ Taylor out next week (but available in the ebook now; buy it and support us paying our authors, artists, and staff), audio podcast of the McMahon, all behind new cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-442/

30/09/2025

New cover art, starting with BCS #442 Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue this Thurs, with stories by James Morrow, Patrick Samphire, RJ Taylor, and Will McMahon: "Arbor" by Bruce Brenneise.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/artwork/arbor/

26/09/2025

Live right now in BCS #441: "Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth" by Kate Francia.

"The wind wailed around the tiny pile of stones at the base of the blackthorn tree. She stood for a moment, eyes closed, willing herself to move. She could do this simple thing: walk through her door. She picked up the bowl and stepped out into the new-fallen snow."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holly-on-the-mantel-blood-on-the-hearth/

25/09/2025

Live in BCS #441 right now: "The Nature of Spells, the Nature of Children" by Aimee Ogden .ogden.

""Go mind your sisters and your brother," Jeanne-Marie tells her. The girl would have had a decent life, before the curse damned them all to this mortal Hell. A roof over her head, enough food to eat—more than most people could ask. Very little, perhaps, compared to what the young master would have enjoyed. But what good was that sort of thinking? Jeanne-Marie may as well envy the angels their wings and the stars their shine. Things are what they are, and whether you're given a ruby or a rock, you can polish it to a good shine."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-nature-of-spells-the-nature-of-children/

24/09/2025

BCS #442, our Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue, ebook is out early today at Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, with stories by James Morrow, Patrick Samphire, RJ Taylor, and Will McMahon.

The Morrow and McMahon stories go live on the website next week, but the Samphire and Taylor stories won't be out for a week after that. Buy the ebook and get them now!

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors and First Readers. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-442/ https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Seventeenth-Anniversary-Double-Issue-ebook/dp/B0FS27GPXG/

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