BCS 342: Half Drowned

BCS 342: Half Drowned

Author: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine January 9, 2025 Duration: 36:15

By S.L. Harris, from Issue #423 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine

I can’t stand the thought of Annemarie flopped on the lake floor, the last thought stamped forever on her mind that no one would come for her.

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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BCS 339: Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:11
By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.The necromancers' wine wasn't merely dark; it sat in the cup like glistening blac…
BCS 336: At the Stopping Place [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:32
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Jinnie, since it was clear no-one was paying attention to her, darted out to scrub away the human’s footprints.More inf…
BCS 335: Conversation with a Dragon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:42
By Cat Rambo, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Cat Rambo, the author.“I don’t know if anyone would have gone in search after this dragon if it hadn’t been for the girl.”More info »
BCS 334: The Wicks Whisper [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:47
By Emily C. Skaftun, from Issue #411 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Even so, I’m tempted to light my new soul candle. Mom.More info »
BCS 332: Gods and Monsters and Brothers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:52
By J. Bridges, from Issue #407 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He was a shell of his former self by the time I found him.More info »
BCS 331: A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:35
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #406 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I could have refused. A year earlier, two years, I would have.More info »
BCS 330: A Reflection of Sun [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:55
By Liana Richmond, from Issue #405 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore.He had taken hold of her, shooing away the fish pulling off bits of her softened flesh, and had guided her to shore…
BCS 329: The Coffee of Torcat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:37
By Devin Miller, from Issue #404 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore."I drank a cup of ordinary coffee once with the Archduke of Holal," Osa said to the girl. "I need to drink it again."…