BCS Archives: "Here-and-Now-and-Then" @jonolfert.bsky.social, BCS #428 (who has a story of the same protagonist in BCS #459 now).

"the memory he needed became clear: young Churchmen trembling around a fire, hands numb from the frosty iron latches on their tithe-purses. Speaking together over the wind, coughing out old soot, talking of deep matters that resolved contradictions and raised new ones. Carmora felt that long-ago cold and that rare excitement."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/here-and-now-and-then/

New Issue: BCS #459 out today, featuring stories of determination and clashes of faith by Louis Inglis Hall and @jonolfert.bsky.social , a From the BCS Archives novelette by RK Duncan, behind cover art by Anthony Avon.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-459/
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From the Archives: "Ten Fruits and Other Memories of Rialynas" by AnaMaria Curtis, BCS #353:

"The skin of the fruit seemed to harden wherever my fingers landed, showed sharp scales everywhere I moved my thumb, made a bloody mess of my hand. When at last I wrestled the flesh out, it tasted of nothing at all. The flavor of a berenton is determined entirely by its surroundings. Alas, in Rialynas I came to find that I was the same."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/ten-fruits-and-other-memories-of-rialynas/
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From the Archives with BCS #458 (and the bloody story by AnaMaria Curtis therein): "Blood and Desert Dreams" by Y.M. Pang, BCS #408 (a 2025 Aurora Award winner).

"My twenty-ninth kill. My heart twisted inside me, as if it were tired of pretending to be calm. I’m sorry, I thought, continuing down the hallway. Lord Farand hadn’t seemed like a bad man. He’d even stopped to help a stranger."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/blood-and-desert-dreams/
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Live in BCS #458 & podcast BCS 361: "The Voice and Her Knife" by AnaMaria Curtis.

"The ambassador takes a bite of her fish. It rolls across her tongue, rich and sweet with the barest hint of salt. It is not the flavor that she savors. She can feel the burst of energy from it almost immediately, can feel her mind sharpening with every bite. Her butcher has done well."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-voice-and-her-knife/
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BCS #459 ebook out early @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of determination and its faith by Louis Inglis Hall and @jonolfert.bsky.social , cover art by Anthony Avon.

(Buying BCS ebooks or subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-459/ https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-459-ebook/dp/B0H3FRMRCN/
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Live in BCS #458: "Boxwood," creepy micro crafting by M.E. Bronstein.

"Bonne went on imagining some unity between his soul and his craft. She had never seen work like his and so believed his mind must be very different from most people’s. Since he had such an amazing sensitivity with small things, surely he would make a good father to any children they produced."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/boxwood/
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New Issue: BCS #458 out today, w stories of intensity by AnaMaria Curtis and M.E. Bronstein, podcast of the Curtis read by MK Hobson, behind cover art by Anthony Avon.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-458/
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Live in BCS #457: "Slayer of Dreams" by @aahabershaw

"Despite the crowd, no one touched her. Those who brushed against her clothing shuddered, though it was doubtful they knew why. The look on the hawker’s face had told all—she was alien, foreign, other. The people of Avissos did not like that; no Nyxian did. To people whose lives had been narrowed to a blind, purposeless pursuit, the idea of difference was frightening."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/slayer-of-dreams/
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