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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.

New Issue: BCS #439 out today, featuring stories of outsiders undertaking obligations by returning BCS author Jonathan ...
21/08/2025

New Issue: BCS #439 out today, featuring stories of outsiders undertaking obligations by returning BCS author Jonathan Louis Duckworth and new one Vijayalaxmi Samal , behind cover art by returning BCS artist Jereme Peabody.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-439/

Live in BCS #438: "The Brittle Terrain" by Stephen Case. "Grey had felt a drift of air against the back of her legs whe...
14/08/2025

Live in BCS #438: "The Brittle Terrain" by Stephen Case.

"Grey had felt a drift of air against the back of her legs when she had stepped behind the earl’s table. She knew she would find a slit in the tent fabric that the earl’s killers had used to enter. She guessed that no one could see it. And because no one saw it, no one else knew it was there. It was the story of her life: not seeing what everyone else saw clearly and instead feeling what everyone else was blind to."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-brittle-terrain/

Live in BCS #438: "The Forgotten" by Trae Hawkins . "And though you are aware of your mind’s steady emptying, you reco...
12/08/2025

Live in BCS #438: "The Forgotten" by Trae Hawkins .

"And though you are aware of your mind’s steady emptying, you recognize that you have come this far, to this land so cold and unforgiving, to support a life you detest. You recognize that, like the Forgotten, you could make the Unnamed Lands your home, could one day look into a cloudy sky and wonder what war is. As things stand, war still coats your tongue, still dews on your skin."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-forgotten/

New Issue: BCS #438 out today, featuring stories of lands beyond and coming home from them and from war by Stephen Case...
07/08/2025

New Issue: BCS #438 out today, featuring stories of lands beyond and coming home from them and from war by Stephen Case and Trae Hawkins , a From the BCS Archives story by Sara Saab, behind cover art by Ankush Sharma.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-438/

From the BCS Archives: "What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away" by .theodoridou , BCS #281. "It was only months ...
05/08/2025

From the BCS Archives: "What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away" by .theodoridou , BCS #281.

"It was only months after she'd moved to the cabin, months of teeth cracking on stone, that she thought the witch may have meant her harm. Not a conspiracy between women, one free thanks to age, the other free thanks to cunning and constitution, but a punishment intended to ruin her. And yet Sapo kept at it, kept eating the mountain, stone by stone by stone, because she feared that if she didn't, it would come, and she didn't want it."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/what-the-river-brings-and-what-it-takes-away/

From the BCS Acrhives with BCS #437, a fellow story of stone and life: "Turn To Stone Ourselves" by Marie Croke , BCS...
01/08/2025

From the BCS Acrhives with BCS #437, a fellow story of stone and life: "Turn To Stone Ourselves" by Marie Croke , BCS #364.

"Reminding me of another little girl centuries before, one who had grown up to claim her youth-name, her adult-name, and finally her elder-name, yet who had never been quite content with any of those names, nor what they represented. Not until her hands turned to stone-care."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/turn-to-stone-ourselves/

Live in BCS #437: "Songs for Obsidian" by Rosemary Claire Smith. "Jammed into the great wall, Tripodea sees nothing to ...
31/07/2025

Live in BCS #437: "Songs for Obsidian" by Rosemary Claire Smith.

"Jammed into the great wall, Tripodea sees nothing to suggest that the city's residents possess any knowledge of, much less sympathy for, all she and her siblings must endure. At times, her fury mounts like Mama Volcano's magma. One day, she summons her courage to ask Vento why they sing to the useless city dwellers. This is as close as she dares come to asking why they sing for her. Tripodea greatly fears what will happen to her inner spark if Vento falls silent."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/songs-for-obsidian/

Live in BCS #437: "Woman Like Stone Like Water" by Malda Marlys. "The stranger turned at the noise she was making and s...
29/07/2025

Live in BCS #437: "Woman Like Stone Like Water" by Malda Marlys.

"The stranger turned at the noise she was making and stared at her rather rudely. (Did plains people not train their children properly?) He didn’t quite seem able to stand, but he scooted away from her, a skittering, spidery movement that would have been funny to see out of a big, gawky beast like him if she weren’t afraid he’d pull at his injuries. Could it have been her own people who hurt him? Hunted him? She hadn’t recognized the knapping of the blade's stone, but she didn’t know every trick."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/woman-like-stone-like-water/

New Issue: BCS #437 is out today, featuring stories of stone and life by Rosemary Claire Smith and Malda Marlys , a Fr...
24/07/2025

New Issue: BCS #437 is out today, featuring stories of stone and life by Rosemary Claire Smith and Malda Marlys , a From the BCS Archives story of stone and life by Marie Croke , behind stony cover art by Ankush Sharma.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-437/

The BCS Patreon is (by just $1!) up to the monthly amt we'd need to hire a 6th First Reader. (BCS First Readers get paid...
21/07/2025

The BCS Patreon is (by just $1!) up to the monthly amt we'd need to hire a 6th First Reader. (BCS First Readers get paid an honorarium for their work reading subs & writing all rejections personalized. We've always paid them; since 2010. It's now $125/mo; up last year from $100/mo.)

BCS First Readers do a ton of work, writing all rejections personalized. $125/mo honorarium is less than they deserve, but it's respect & a reward. Subs volume is up this year. Hiring a 6th Reader would reduce the load on all our staff and allow faster Reply Times to writers.

We will use this new income from our Patreon supporters (THANK YOU!) to hire a 6th First Reader. But we will need the BCS Patreon to stay above $1000/mo in order to fund their pay.

If it's important to you that zine staff get paid for their work, that submitting writers get as fast RTs as possible, and that BCS gives personalized comments in all rejections, pls support the BCS Patreon. THANK YOU!

https://www.patreon.com/beneath_ceaseless_skies

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