Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine

To quote from memory Scott Andrews, editor of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social:

"Write the story only you can write."

This column features stories from @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @smallwondersmag.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com and @bcsmagazine.bsky.social .

You can read the full column in the February issue of Locus: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

I also review stories from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @smallwondersmag.com and @bourbonpenn.bsky.social !

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 by Scott Andrews A third double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a full-length novella by multiple-time BCS Science-Fantasy Month author Jason Sanford and science-fantasy cover art “Project Elderidge 1...

New Issue: BCS #452, third double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8 out today, with a novella by @jasonsanford.bsky.social (Pt II next week; full novella in the ebook now) and a story by JW Halicks, cover art by Tyler Edlin: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 by Scott Andrews A third double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a full-length novella by multiple-time BCS Science-Fantasy Month author Jason Sanford and science-fantasy cover art “Project Elderidge 1...

Part 1 of my novella "Where the Dream Train Goes" is out in the science fantasy issue 452 of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, with Part 2 dropping next week. The story is a very personal secondary world fantasy about living on the autistic spectrum and how people continually steal the dreams of others. 1/

I don’t oppose the use of genAI out of some kind of gatekeeping, but because its use is on many very practical levels harmful.

I think genAI is bad at what it does and bad for the people who use it, but that’s at best secondary to why I oppose it. It’s also bad for the environment, bad for the artists whose work it steals, bad for the people who lose work to it, and bad for the underpaid humans who actually keep it running.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - To Atone for Evil by Megan Chee I feel rather smug at that. “I understand her. If I were in her position, robbed of my wings and trapped on the ground, I would roar my rage into the sky, rampage into the village and kill everyone I ...

Live in BCS #451 Science-Fantasy Month 8: "To Atone for Evil" by @meganflchee.bsky.social Chee “If I were in her position, I would do anything for a chance to fly again. Isn’t that what you were trying to teach me? That thing you call empathy?”" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-a...

If anyone has a hankering for a fantasy spy story set in Italy in the late 1400s, the link is below. Trivia: "The God Thieves" was my third sale for qualifying for membership in @sfwa.org.

Thank you for the kind words!!

("The God Thieves", www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... )

Thank you for the kind words!!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - What Might Come of Today by Leah Ning That uncertainty comes back, flaying the grin from Fray's face. But what's he supposed to do? Let Drift kill Wander when he goes cross-wired? There's a lot of shit Fray would take to avoid that eventu...

Live in BCS #451 double-issue for Science-Fantasy Month 8: "What Might Come of Today" @leahning.bsky.social "That uncertainty comes back, flaying the grin from Fray's face. But what's he supposed to do? Let Drift kill Wander when he goes cross-wired?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/what...

The nomination period for the 2026 Aurora Awards is officially open! All CSFFA members can log into the website at www.csffa.ca and submit up to five works in each our ten categories. Please only nominate what you're familiar with. Nominations close 11:59pm EST on April 4th, 2026. #AuroraAwards2026

Excited to share I have a new short forthcoming in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! Keep your eyes open if you enjoy:

🏡Cottagecore vibes
🧙🏻‍♀️Stout witches (who are more than they seem)
🔮Magic with a cost
❄️Nordic-inspired worlds

Coming in late March!

#fantasy #shortfiction #shortstory

Happy to say I have a story coming later this year in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s called ‘A Candle for Her Tireless Dead’ and it’s about bogs and gods.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Void Door by V.M. Ayala Later, far later, at a different door, Luz would realize why this conversation had felt so awful, and she would bristle and rage at the wrongness of it; in hearing that name that wasn’t her name at al...

it finally happened: I got my first book club invite spam email. apparently I wrote a non-existent book called Through the Dusty Door. I haven't stopped laughing at this title 😂

BUT my debut short story was "The Void Door" over at @bcsmagazine.bsky.social back in 2023. I'm still so proud of it 🚪💜

(A story about political power and might between nations and leaders.)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Juggernaut by Megan Arkenberg I closed my eyes and lay my head on my folded arms. I wanted to say yes to Casimar, and not only because I needed her protection. Every word of her argument was true; if Juggernaut denied itself the s...

From the Archives with BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Juggernaut" by Megan Arkenberg, BCS #91 Science-Fantasy Month 1 "I wanted to say yes to Casimar, and not only because I needed her protection. Every word of her argument was true" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/jugg...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies by Natalia Theodoridou —she the ship recalls stories she never read of women and men in rivers weighed down their pockets full of stones she wonders at her cavities and hollows wonders am I an I am I my cargo does the I I a...

I liked "Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies" by @nassos.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social.

Please check out the podcast so it's worth Tina's time to have had to deal with narrating all the weird multilingual-sound-combining words I made up! (Also I love this story and I hope you love it too.) (Also also check out @melmulrooney.bsky.social's lovely bouquet of a story while you're at it!)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 Issue #452 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, one of three special double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a novella by Jason Sanford and a short story by J.W. Halicks, behin...

The new science-fantasy issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is available on @weightlessbooks.bsky.social. The issue contains my complete novella "Where the Dream Train Goes," a secondary world fantasy about living on the autistic spectrum and how people continually steal the dreams of others. 1/

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #451 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 by Scott Andrews The second of three double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring two bonus stories and science-fantasy cover art “Project Elderidge 1” by Tyler Edlin. Hollow in The Hope by Aimee Ogden. To...

BCS #451 second double-issue for Science-Fantasy Month 8: bonus stories by @meganflchee.bsky.social and @leahning.bsky.social live today, alongside @aimeeogdenwrites.com and @melmulrooney.bsky.social and Ogden podcast, behind cover art by Tyler Edlin: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - To Atone for Evil by Megan Chee I feel rather smug at that. “I understand her. If I were in her position, robbed of my wings and trapped on the ground, I would roar my rage into the sky, rampage into the village and kill everyone I ...

New story day! My science-fantasy short story 'To Atone For Evil' is out now in the science-fantasy special issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

"We journey together across the universe, our souls shackled, our fates entwined..."

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-a...

Even if you used AI to "write" a story and you got someone to publish it unawares, what exactly do you think that proves? This is no way an invitation, but unless it's replicable, and consistent, you're just one unlikely outlier—and it's the hollowest of victories, at that.

Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early--in this case, both parts of a novella two weeks 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!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 Issue #452 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, one of three special double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a novella by Jason Sanford and a short story by J.W. Halicks, behin...

BCS #452 Science-Fantasy Month 8 double issue ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring both parts of a novella by Jason Sanford and a story by J.W. Halicks, cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Cover art by Tyler Edlin for BCS #452, featuring two space-suited figures before a huge monolithic statue of an alien with an amber jewel in its brow

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, the last for this year's science fantasy month, features a novella by @jasonsanford.bsky.social, a short story by J.W. Halicks, and cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 Issue #452 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, one of three special double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a novella by Jason Sanford and a short story by J.W. Halicks, behin...

BCS #452 Science-Fantasy Month 8 double issue ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring both parts of a novella by Jason Sanford and a story by J.W. Halicks, cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Hollow in The Hope by Aimee Ogden For whatever time they have left, they will have to make their own companionship. They should use those hours wisely, and not in seeking counsel—or worse, comfort—from a woman long dead. “I accept the...

But for recent short fiction, I loved @aimeeogdenwrites.com ‘s “Hollow in the Hope” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl...

It’s a story across a couple futuristic timelines of the children of powerful parents, of gods and cruel superstitions. And resisting them

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloom Where You Are Planted by Melanie Mulrooney A couple weeks later, I felt my first flower pulsing just below the surface in the center of my chest. The tingle of energy was like electricity—an awakening, a definition of alive I hadn’t expected. ...

In BCS #451 Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Bloom Where You Are Planted" @melmulrooney.bsky.social "my first flower pulsing just below the surface of my chest. The tingle of energy was like electricity—an awakening, a definition of alive I hadn’t expected." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...