BCS 357: Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies

BCS 357: Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies

Author: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine February 5, 2026 Duration: 39:01

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #450 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine

—she the ship recalls stories she never read of women and men in rivers weighed down their pockets full of stones—

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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BCS 308: A Forcible Calm [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:53
By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #375 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.All four were Brothers of Dule, magicians of a shared heritage and shared interests, her enemies—and yet there might b…
BCS 307: Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:40
By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #373 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Marie Brennan.The warp is Constant Ivan, strong and steady. The weft is Clever Natalya, darting here and there.More info »
BCS 306: Half-Spent Was the Night [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:52
By Gretchen Tessmer, from Issue #371 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She finds herself muttering to Jonah, “What if Leah never knows what any color but grey looks like?”More info »
BCS 305: By Hand and By Heart [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:30
By Tina Connolly, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.And this was apparently the point where she was supposed to feel lucky.More info »
BCS Audio Vault 041: A Nickel For The Burlap Man [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:33
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…
BCS 304: He Stays Among the Commots [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:24
By Christopher Rowe, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.All the cantrevs of his homeland had been burned.More info »
BCS Audio Vault 040: Portrait of the Artist [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:13
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 tri…
BCS Audio Vault 039: The Thought That Counts [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:46
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…
BCS 303: Playing God [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:16
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Try thinking about it, the Archer God had said, so I did.More info »
BCS 302: Fire and Brimstone in the Twin Cities [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:39
By James Morrow, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Lot revisits his tankard and frowns thoughtfully.More info »