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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.

26/06/2025

New Issue: BCS #435 is out today, featuring stories of discovery or bargain (and feathers!) by returning BCS author KJ Kabza and new one Betsy Aoki, a podcast of the Kabza guest-narrated by MK Hobson, a From the BCS Archives story of bargaining by Amanda Helms, behind new cover art by Ankush Sharma.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-435/

24/06/2025

“After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland” by Max Franciscovich, from BCS #416, is a finalist for the Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction!

It's a great story, with a plural first-person POV like nothing you've read. Congratulations to it and all the other finalists.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/06/24/after-we-kill-our-father-and-before-we-reach-the-mainland-a-finalist-for-eugie-foster-award/

20/06/2025

Live in BCS #434: "Let the Gods Drown With Us" by R.K. Duncan.

"Tyffan sees now, in the bitter clarity of her poisoned insight, that she could never have saved Gwyn then. The gods would not release him until he was used up as their instrument. Even if Carag had cared for him enough to try, they would have found some way to keep Gwyn on the narrow shore until the end. So that his death could be another spur to make her carry the gods and their vengeance."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/let-the-gods-drown-with-us/

19/06/2025

Live in BCS #434: "Not a Fish" by Andrew Dykstal.

"Our god did the hard part, or our priests did: they’d draft up a prayer for the defeat of the opposing army, the spectacular death of any parts of the foreign aristocracy judged intractable, and sometimes a rain of frogs for giggles. They kept the spoken prayers themselves under wraps for both secrecy and a less obvious reason—you can’t _say_ a prayer in the priestly vernacular without _making_ a prayer"

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/not-a-fish/

18/06/2025

BCS #435 ebook is out early todayWeightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of discovery or bargain by KJ Kabza and Betsy Aoki, behind cover art by Ankush Sharma.

(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-435/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-435-ebook/dp/B0FD87RBC9/

12/06/2025

New Issue: BCS #434 is out today, featuring stories of humans navigating interactions with gods by R.K. Duncan and Andrew Dykstal, a From the BCS Archives story by Jennifer DeLeskie, and cover art by Erin Costello.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-434/

05/06/2025

Live right now in BCS #433: "Last Stop: Tomb City" by Howe.

"Now, breaking and entering may be a sport in some scapes, but in most it’s an act much frowned upon indeed. When the act is also accompanied by the removal of objects or persons, that frown brings with it severe repercussions. It was clear this Vaal Rakka had no intention of waking the heir, let alone releasing them. Simpler scapes than Usquayba might call what we planned to do larceny or abduction or, at the very least, breach of contract. Normally, I would not have had any truck with such actions."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last-stop-tomb-city/

04/06/2025

BCS #434 ebook is out early today at Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of humans navigating interactions with gods by returning BCS authors R.K. Duncan and Andrew Dykstal, behind cover art by returning BCS artist by Erin Costello.

(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-434/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-434-ebook/dp/B0FB4XKS35/

03/06/2025

Live right now in BCS #433: "Last Train from Deadwall" by André Geleynse.

"The train reached Deadwall only fifteen minutes behind schedule. Knucklebone thought he deserved some praise for that—maybe even a raise—but was unsurprised when he was shuffled off with the rest of the mechanical revenants and told to sign in at the company offices before his shift started the next day. He nodded along dutifully, but when his cohorts tromped off to the offices, he slipped off unnoticed."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last-train-from-deadwall/

29/05/2025

New Issue: BCS #433 out today, featuring stories of transit to strange places and self-defining struggle there by André Geleynse and Howe, a From the BCS Archives story by .j.miller , cover art by Erin Costello.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-433/

23/05/2025

From the Archives with BCS #432: "Another Tide" by Will Greatwich, from BCS #420, Winner of the 2024 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella.

"At the university I had studied radical repositioning: the art of situating myself in another’s cultural viewpoint. I considered myself an open-minded woman, an opponent of cultural hegemony. Yet, presented with a real enemy of the empire, I found myself sinking unwillingly into the role of the bourgeois scold. “What would you say to those,” I asked, “who argue that your campaign only hinders the progress of the entire region?”"

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/another-tide/

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