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Monday, January 21, 2013

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Fiction
• At Author's Site: Thieves' Honor, ep 25: "Walking Through Walls, part 3"  by Keanan Brand. 
     "This week's episode is a "director's cut", containing deleted scenes cut from what was originally published in Ray Gun Revival. They were lost due to length—the episode was already too long"

• At Author's Site: Kat and Mouse - "Ties That Bind" - Part Five by Abner Senires.
     "Then the other pursuit car appeared, shooting around the bend two hundred meters in front of us, just past the freeway entrance. Automatic fire flashed from the passenger side window."
 
• At Buzzy Mag: "The Composer" by Grant Grogan.
      "A heart-shaped vise tightened in Heather’s chest as she walked the overgrown stone pathway. It was not so long ago that she was sneaking down this same path under a starlit sky, shoes in hand, with anticipation coursing through her like an electric current."

• At Short-Story.me: "Escape to Here" by Ol Wilson. Fantasy.
      "The Eastern Gate was deserted, save for the huddled family that awaited transfer to the Deep. He could see from their dirty and malnourished faces that they were no surface dwellers, their skin was too ashen and pale, pallid even in the sweet air of the cities' edge. No, these people were from the Deep, the shanty slum that rose from the core, eight levels down. Those that lived there often gave it a different name however; many simply called it Hell."

• At Short-Story.me: "Taken, One after Another" by Tim McDaniel. Fantasy.
     "That was the way it was, ever since the dead started walking again – the Zombie Uprising that had seemed like just a stupid joke until it actually happened.  How?  Who knew.  Why?  An even more impossible question.  We just crouched in the darkness of the Payless Shoes storage room, keeping quiet.  Dark, so maybe they wouldn’t see us.  Quiet, so maybe they wouldn’t hear us."

• At Strange Horizons: "Dysphonia in D Minor" by Damien Walters Grintalis.
      "There were buildings in the capitol city said to be her creations, towering things of arches and alcoves, rooms that swallowed up every sound, every heartbeat."

• At The WiFiles: "Barnett Hill" by Anne E. Johnson.
     "The wagon accident three years before had broken her spine, so she couldn’t walk. Her so-called husband?in name only, as they say?had no idea what to do with her. Every day he wheeled her out onto the porch and left her there. For hours and hours sometimes, until he or one of the farmhands happened to remember she existed, and wheeled her in again."

At Wily Writers: “Presenting the Mobius Follies” by Tom Brennan.
      "Driving up Walnut Creek Parkway toward Sam Petchey’s estate, Joel dry-swallowed two painkillers and rubbed his eyes. The hot greasy air shimmered, as before a thunderstorm, but the hills around Los Angeles carried no anvil clouds. What a day for a wasted journey."

Flash Fiction
Audio
At Beam Me Up: “Tribute” by Doug Turnbull and part 1 of "Last Resort" by Stephen Bartholomew.
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At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 19 - The Return of Tarzan"     
     "Tarzan has been made chief of his new tribe, the Waziri – following the death of the old chief Waziri. Tarzan’s wisdom as leader while trouncing the Arab slave traders and their Manuema henchmen is unquestioned. Tarza now turns his eye toward a fabled city of jewels and gold visited in legend by ancestors of the tribe."

At Toasted Cake: "A Brief Respite from Eternity" by Alex Shvartsman.
      "It's so very green," said Iolanthe. "Why can't we have colors like this on the ship?" 

At Strange Horizons: "Dysphonia in D Minor" by Damien Walters Grintalis.
     Described above.

At Wily Writers: “Presenting the Mobius Follies” by Tom Brennan.
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

 Sti
Fiction
• At Author's Site: Thieves' Honor, ep 25: "Walking Through Walls, part 3"  by Keanan Brand. 
     "This week's episode is a "director's cut", containing deleted scenes cut from what was originally published in Ray Gun Revival. They were lost due to length—the episode was already too long"
• At Buzzy Mag: "The Composer" by Grant Grogan.
      "A heart-shaped vise tightened in Heather’s chest as she walked the overgrown stone pathway. It was not so long ago that she was sneaking down this same path under a starlit sky, shoes in hand, with anticipation coursing through her like an electric current."


• At Short-Story.me: "Escape to Here" by Ol Wilson. Fantasy.
      "The Eastern Gate was deserted, save for the huddled family that awaited transfer to the Deep. He could see from their dirty and malnourished faces that they were no surface dwellers, their skin was too ashen and pale, pallid even in the sweet air of the cities' edge. No, these people were from the Deep, the shanty slum that rose from the core, eight levels down. Those that lived there often gave it a different name however; many simply called it Hell."

• At Short-Story.me: "Taken, One after Another" by Tim McDaniel. Fantasy.
     "That was the way it was, ever since the dead started walking again – the Zombie Uprising that had seemed like just a stupid joke until it actually happened.  How?  Who knew.  Why?  An even more impossible question.  We just crouched in the darkness of the Payless Shoes storage room, keeping quiet.  Dark, so maybe they wouldn’t see us.  Quiet, so maybe they wouldn’t hear us."

• At The WiFiles: "Barnett Hill" by Anne E. Johnson.
     "The wagon accident three years before had broken her spine, so she couldn’t walk. Her so-called husband?in name only, as they say?had no idea what to do with her. Every day he wheeled her out onto the porch and left her there. For hours and hours sometimes, until he or one of the farmhands happened to remember she existed, and wheeled her in again."


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Friday, January 11, 2013


 A few more goodies for you today.  Back tomorrow.






Cool Site
 I don't mention cool sites that aren't about free fiction nearly enough, so one I should mention to correct that is The Comic Prospector, a site where Rusty Keele of  BestScienceFictionStories.com fame reviews comic books of virtually all genres.  Do yourself a favor and check it out. And don't miss the Elfquest review, which links to free online editions.



 
E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics: Buster Crabbe in "Dark of the Moon" Sci-Fi. (1954).
At Atomic Kommie Comics: Spacehawk in "My Friend, My Foe" Sci-Fi. (1940).
At The Horrors of It All: "Gorillas, Ghosts, and Gangsters" Horror. Humor. (1942).
At Pappy's Golden Age: "The Devil's Typewriter" Horror. (1952).
At Digital Comics Museum:
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Some good freebies this morning as two of the regular great genre fiction sites (Buzzy Mag and Daily Science Fiction) are joined by a speculative fiction story from The New Yorker!  And there's great audio fiction at Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and Tales to Terrify. If you're not familiar with all three of these, you have many great hours of catching up ahead of you.

More later today, including comics, e-books, and a very cool site.

Today's QD Radio is Nightfall's SF/Horror story "Hands Off" by John Graham. A dangerous chemical that triggers extreme aggression is accidental spilled.


[Art from "Shirley Temple Three" linked below]


Fiction
• At Buzzy Mag: "The Call Of The Golden Gate" by Daniel Powell. Horror.
      "There was a man–a scholar–who claimed to have identified the monstrous creature. His credentials to make such a claim were, by his own admission, questionable. Still . . . a significant part of me believes him. What are my alternatives? I saw the thing."

• At Daily Science Fiction: "Death Before Dishonor" by Shannon Leight.
      "The siege lasted months, and those months were hard enough. Then the city fell and the conqueror marched in to claim the ashes, and Kere and I and every other living body were sold to Dogstown."

• At The New Yorker: "Shirley Temple Three" by Thomas Pierce. Speculative Fiction..
      "Tommy is driving in from Atlanta, where he works as the host of a popular show called “Back from Extinction.” On each episode they actually bring back long-dead, forgotten creatures—sabre-toothed tigers, dodo birds, and all the rest."

Flash Fiction

Audio Fiction
• At Escape Pod: "Shutdown" by Corry L. Lee. Science Fiction.
      "The alarm blared over the forest’s metallic rustling, and my HUD’s red warning light glazed the view through my faceplate. Ten seconds until the defense scan hit my position. Ten seconds until any motion, any electrical signature would whip vines down from the iron-cored trees, wrapping me as surely as steel cables, pinning me while cutter-bugs took me apart."

• At Pseudopod: "What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night" by Michael Marshall Smith. Horror.
     “The first thing I was unhappy about was the dark. I do not like the dark very very much. It is not the worst thing in the world but it is also not the best thing in the world, either. When I was very smaller I used to wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and be scared when I woke up, because it was so dark. I would go to bed with my light on, the one light that turns round and round, on the drawers by the side of my bed."

• At Tales to Terrify: "The Heart Is a Determined Hunter" by Thomas Smith. Horror.
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There are some good free fiction links today, including the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies and the conclusion of "Thieves Vinegar" at Paizo.


[Art from "Thieves Vinegar"]







Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
"His Crowning Glory’: a new tale of the Antique Lands" by Noreen Doyle. Fantasy.
      "Jon sat down in the doorway to watch the man go about whatever odd business his God had appointed to him."

"The Giants of Galtares" by Sue Burke. Fantasy.
       Sardamira tugged her reins from Pinela's hands. "I'm staying. Whatever happens, I want to see what I came for."
• At Paizo: "Thieves Vinegar" (All four Parts) by Kevin Andrew Murphy. Fantasy Pathfinde.
     "The most horrible sight is watching those cultists throwing the corpse back up while a vampire vomits. This latter is particularly bad when you remember who the priestess seated me opposite. If I ever hear a bard say the words "bathed in blood" again, I swear I'll kick him."

Flash Fiction
Audio Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Seeking The Great Raymundo" Jamie Lackey. Fantasy.
      “Why in the world do you want to be a magician, if that’s the life they lead?” he asked me after one particularly bloodcurdling story about an angry mother.

• At 19 Nocturne Boulevard: "Afterlives 2.1 - Once Upon a Forgotten Boy"
     "Afterlives is a tale of what happens after death, or maybe afterlife.... and it isn't at all what you would expect."

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