Beneath Ceaseless Skies
An Online Magazine of
Literary Adventure Fantasy
Issue #35 -- Jan. 28, 2010
Now available in EPUB ebook file format for iPhone/iPod Touch and Sony E-Reader, in addition to PDF and Mobi PRC--all downloadable from the Issue's Table of Contents.
"Gizzard Stones," by Garth Upshaw
Grampa huddled inside, exposed in the corner. Bark and Thorn crouched next to him covering their faces. The gleaner struck—one-two—and in less time that it took to draw a breath, Grampa and Thorn were trussed and thrown over the gleaner's back like sacks of meal. Bark, the bravest of my littermates, whimpered and dodged out of sight into the yard behind the house. The gleaner stepped forward and raised its serrated front legs.
"Shatterach Gates," by Paul Daly
The warmth, then swift coldness, of piss on my legs brings me back from the rolling horror oozing over the dirt-pack towards me. Still a league distant, it is monstrous. A grotesque boil on the earth; a seething mass of tree spars and rocks that scalds the ice around it into steam. The way it moves! Questing forward, then rushing into the blackened space before it. Each thrust accompanied by boulders grinding, great snappings of century-old trunks as it heaves ahead.
Audio Fiction Podcast 030
"In the Age of Iron and Ashes," by Aliette de Bodard, from BCS #33
The girl did not answer for a while; for so long, in fact, that Yudhyana had started to move back towards the camp. When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat. “Everything lives and dies,” she whispered. “Everything changes, and all changes end in death.”
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