By Patty Templeton, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, detailing the feel and inspirations for the story’s world of Shady Grove.The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravi

BCS Audio Vault 040: Portrait of the Artist

Nov 17th, 2022 1h 19m

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #369 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by narrator Carla Kissane, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.“I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like

BCS Audio Vault 039: The Thought That Counts

Nov 3rd, 2022 1h 9m

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #368 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by audiobook and podcast narrator Heath Miller, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.For once in my life, I could walk down the str

BCS Audio Vault 038: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power

Sep 8th, 2022 5h 6m

By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #364 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, explaining elements of the Birdverse world and culture and characters that appear in the novella and how one of the characters connects with th

BCS Audio Vault 037: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away

Aug 11th, 2022 21m 7s

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #362 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineWith an introduction from the author, explaining their beliefs on the story’s theme of individual freedom and autonomy.The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sa

BCS Audio Vault 036: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch

Jun 2nd, 2022 42m 28s

By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #357 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations in complicity with institutional systems and activism

BCS Audio Vault 035: The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies

Mar 10th, 2022 36m 14s

By Peter Darbyshire, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, explaining the genesis of the Angel Azrael character, his horror-influenced Weird Western world, and the personal bibles in that world.The

BCS Audio Vault 034: Gennesaret

Mar 3rd, 2022 36m 54s

By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations from inter-generati

BCS Audio Vault 033: The Three Feats of Agani

Jan 13th, 2022 35m 37s

By Christie Yant, from Issue #347 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, posing questions as to who stories belong to and whether they matter.I had hoped to tell you the first story in the summers to come. It is my

BCS Audio Vault 032: As Tight As Any Knot

Dec 2nd, 2021 40m 44s

By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #344 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, the two authors behind the M.A. Carrick pen name, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson.Ondrakja chose her

BCS Audio Vault 031: Undercurrents

Nov 18th, 2021 42m 52s

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s take on resistance and cooperation.Rory nods. The bullets ar

BCS Audio Vault 030: Rivers Run Free

Nov 11th, 2021 40m 29s

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s element that oppression can link people together and can tea

BCS Audio Vault 029: Every Tiny Tooth and Claw (or, Letters from the First Month of the New Directorate)

Oct 28th, 2021 27m 45s

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, discussing the story’s approach to characters and politics and to political systems.I don't want to make all our letters about shrews, love,

BCS Audio Vault 028: The Mermaid Astronaut

Oct 8th, 2021 43m 49s

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author, explaining the inspiration for the story and its ending note.This particular mermaid had named herself Essa

BCS Audio Vault 027: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud

Aug 31st, 2017 55m 32s

By Fran Wilde, from Issue #233 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much.More info »

BCS Audio Vault 026: Everything Beneath You

Dec 8th, 2016 36m 22s

By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #214 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I wanted to ask her more questions, about the way the world was made, about death and dreams, but did not want to know the answers.More

BCS Audio Vault 025: And Blow Them at the Moon

Aug 25th, 2016 1h 6m

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.Magrat was right. This man stood at the heart of it.More info »

BCS Audio Vault 024: The Topaz Marquise

May 5th, 2016 34m 38s

By Fran Wilde, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz.More info »

BCS Audio Vault 023: No Sweeter Art

Apr 7th, 2016 38m 54s

By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by audiobook and podcast narrator John Meagher.My soul sunk beneath the platform planks and into a sturdy ox figurine with wisps of cooled caramel for its horns.Mo

BCS Audio Vault 022: The Breath of War

Mar 24th, 2016 47m 33s

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.She would have run, but her legs betrayed her—a contraction, locking her in place, as frozen as the baby within h

BCS Audio Vault 021: The Book of Locked Doors

Mar 10th, 2016 44m 57s

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.She cursed herself for freezing up and ruminating when the proper response was to react.More info »

BCS Audio Vault 020: In the Age of Iron and Ashes

Nov 24th, 2015 39m 58s

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #187 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat.More info »

BCS Audio Vault 019: The Nine-Tailed Cat

Jun 18th, 2015 16m 33s

By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails.More info »

BCS Audio Vault 018: Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride

Apr 21st, 2015 28m 25s

By Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.So when Mister Hadj said that a stone in the road told him where we'd find Parson Lucifer, I didn’t doubt it.More

BCS Audio Vault 017: Hangman

Apr 9th, 2015 34m 10s

By Erin Cashier, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it.More info »