BCS of 2025! "The Unmasking Of Fioha Dubhan" @samuelchapman.bsky.social BCS #446: "others are having to shove their way through. Fioha doesn't like starting with an audience. It highlights the artifice in just the way she's trying to avoid." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
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December 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Unmasking Of Fioha Dubhan" @samuelchapman.bsky.social BCS #446: "others are having to shove their way through. Fioha doesn't like starting with an audience. It highlights the artifice in just the way she's trying to avoid." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "The Crow's Second Tale" @marissalingen.bsky.social BCS #445 "So Kiris knew: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she would have to be the one to fix it." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingen
So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow, like in the song. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she felt down to her five-year-ol...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Crow's Second Tale" @marissalingen.bsky.social BCS #445 "So Kiris knew: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she would have to be the one to fix it." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS 2025! "The Thirteenth Time" @patricksamphire.bsky.social BCS #442 "You know how sometimes there are things that happen you never want to think about again? Not because they’re terrible, but because that’s the moment you made a choice" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Thirteenth Time by Patrick Samphire
You know how sometimes there are things that happen that you never want to think about again? Not because they’re terrible or horrifying, and not because they were such a perfect moment that everythin...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BCS 2025! "The Thirteenth Time" @patricksamphire.bsky.social BCS #442 "You know how sometimes there are things that happen you never want to think about again? Not because they’re terrible, but because that’s the moment you made a choice" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS stories of 2025! "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" @mariecroke.bsky.social BCS #423: "I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. Wondered whether my admission of taking Danai into the Whispermarsh had been a final wedge between us." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke
Outside the preburial cottage, the pier creaked. I saw no shadow under the doorway, yet I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. I imagined, yet again, an anger filtering over his calm countenance. Wonde...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
BCS stories of 2025! "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" @mariecroke.bsky.social BCS #423: "I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. Wondered whether my admission of taking Danai into the Whispermarsh had been a final wedge between us." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-... #BCSof2025
BCS 2025! "Cry, the Carob King" @thomasha.bsky.social BCS #430 "The glob’s eyes fixed on them there, and I detected a forlorn trace of something I knew well: this still and quiet loneliness. Somehow I could sense that the glob was like me." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/cry-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Cry, the Carob King by Thomas Ha
Two tall apparitions bent by a small one, cooing and brushing at its head. I don’t know what the glob thought, but I took those to be something of a young family, or their shades at least. The glob’s ...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
BCS 2025! "Cry, the Carob King" @thomasha.bsky.social BCS #430 "The glob’s eyes fixed on them there, and I detected a forlorn trace of something I knew well: this still and quiet loneliness. Somehow I could sense that the glob was like me." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/cry-... #BCSof2025
Reading for 2025? Here's all BCS stories from 2025, what length category they're in (Short Story, Novelette, etc), links, and links to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts, so you can read our authors' work in other zines. Thank you for reading! #BCSof2025 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - 2026 Awards-Eligible Stories from <i>BCS</i> by Scott H. Andrews
For readers interested in nominating for awards, such as the Hugos or Nebulas, in 2026, here are the eligible stories from BCS in 2025 and which awards category they fit in. Thank you for your interes...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reading for 2025? Here's all BCS stories from 2025, what length category they're in (Short Story, Novelette, etc), links, and links to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts, so you can read our authors' work in other zines. Thank you for reading! #BCSof2025 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...
BCS 2025! "The Brittle Terrain" @stephenrcase.bsky.social BCS #438 "And because no one saw it, no one else knew it was there. It was the story of her life: not seeing what everyone else saw; instead feeling what everyone else was blind to." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Brittle Terrain by Stephen Case
Grey had felt a drift of air against the back of her legs when she had stepped behind the earl’s table. She knew she would find a slit in the tent fabric that the earl’s killers had used to enter. She...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
BCS 2025! "The Brittle Terrain" @stephenrcase.bsky.social BCS #438 "And because no one saw it, no one else knew it was there. It was the story of her life: not seeing what everyone else saw; instead feeling what everyone else was blind to." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS stories of 2025! "Let the Gods Drown With Us" @rkduncan.bsky.social , BCS #434 "Tyffan sees now that she could never have saved Gwyn then. The gods would not release him until he was used up as their instrument." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/let-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Let the Gods Drown With Us by R.K. Duncan
Tyffan sees now, in the bitter clarity of her poisoned insight, that she could never have saved Gwyn then. The gods would not release him until he was used up as their instrument. Even if Carag had ca...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
BCS stories of 2025! "Let the Gods Drown With Us" @rkduncan.bsky.social , BCS #434 "Tyffan sees now that she could never have saved Gwyn then. The gods would not release him until he was used up as their instrument." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/let-... #BCSof2025
BCS 2025! "The Nature of Spells, the Nature of Children" @aimeeogdenwrites.com BCS #441 "A roof over her head, food to eat. Very little, perhaps, compared to what the young master would have enjoyed. But what good was that sort of thinking?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Nature of Spells, the Nature of Children by Aimee Ogden
"Go mind your sisters and your brother," Jeanne-Marie tells her. The girl would have had a decent life, before the curse damned them all to this mortal Hell. A roof over her head, enough food to eat—m...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
BCS 2025! "The Nature of Spells, the Nature of Children" @aimeeogdenwrites.com BCS #441 "A roof over her head, food to eat. Very little, perhaps, compared to what the young master would have enjoyed. But what good was that sort of thinking?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows" @somtoihezue.bsky.social BCS #425: "They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself. Your aunties say it is tradition. They too were sealed in the room." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows by Somto Ihezue
They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself. Your aunties say it is tradition. They too were sealed in the room. So was your mother. So was her mother.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
BCS of 2025! "Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows" @somtoihezue.bsky.social BCS #425: "They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself. Your aunties say it is tradition. They too were sealed in the room." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social BCS #443 & Podcast 353 "Regarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/my-s... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - My Sincere Apologies For the Demon by Adrian Ward
Regarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame. With the aid of the Parthiet Warlock Gentlemen’s Circle, additional ...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
BCS of 2025! "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social BCS #443 & Podcast 353 "Regarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/my-s... #BCSof2025
#BCSof2025! "For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float" @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #426 "Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage evaporated in sight of the gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above. She has never been to the dry world" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/for-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage all evaporated in sight of the wobbling gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above it. She has never been to the dry world of the shore, where the b...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
#BCSof2025! "For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float" @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #426 "Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage evaporated in sight of the gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above. She has never been to the dry world" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/for-...
BCS stories of 2025! "Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory" @nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social BCS #427 "She sliced open one of the mangoes, then chewed the fruit from the rind. She let her eyes flutter closed as the flavor filled her." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/tea-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory by Nicole L. Soper Gorden
No doubt, but Indra still had to weigh his worth. She sliced open one of the mangoes, then chewed the fruit from the rind. She sucked the pit clean, the familiar flat stone a comfort on her tongue. Sh...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
BCS stories of 2025! "Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory" @nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social BCS #427 "She sliced open one of the mangoes, then chewed the fruit from the rind. She let her eyes flutter closed as the flavor filled her." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/tea-... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "Beyond the Fold" @oldheneel.bsky.social BCS #436 "The power to fold life carries great responsibility, so we must fold a thousand cranes before we can touch a sheet of living paper. ...our teacher inspects them for damage." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/beyo... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Beyond the Fold by Holden Lee
The power to fold life carries great responsibility, so we must fold a thousand cranes before we can touch a sheet of living paper. We fold them with writing paper, with newspaper obituaries, with pla...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BCS of 2025! "Beyond the Fold" @oldheneel.bsky.social BCS #436 "The power to fold life carries great responsibility, so we must fold a thousand cranes before we can touch a sheet of living paper. ...our teacher inspects them for damage." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/beyo... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "Songs for Obsidian" @rcwordsmith.bsky.social BCS #437 "Tripodea sees nothing to suggest that the city's residents possess any knowledge of, much less sympathy for, all she and her siblings must endure." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/song... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Songs for Obsidian by Rosemary Claire Smith
Jammed into the great wall, Tripodea sees nothing to suggest that the city's residents possess any knowledge of, much less sympathy for, all she and her siblings must endure. At times, her fury mounts...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
BCS of 2025! "Songs for Obsidian" @rcwordsmith.bsky.social BCS #437 "Tripodea sees nothing to suggest that the city's residents possess any knowledge of, much less sympathy for, all she and her siblings must endure." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/song... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash" @jonolfert.bsky.social BCS #440 "She'd just tucked three of the gold slips into the hem of her robe, and one into each cheek, when two tall, smiling, sunburned men ducked inside." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash by Jonathan Olfert
She'd just tucked three of the little slips into the hem of her robe, and one into each cheek high behind the teeth, and the last into a crack in the stool as a cache, and the blacksmith was offering ...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
BCS of 2025! "The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash" @jonolfert.bsky.social BCS #440 "She'd just tucked three of the gold slips into the hem of her robe, and one into each cheek, when two tall, smiling, sunburned men ducked inside." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "A Good Brother" @annewilkins.bsky.social BCS #447 "A thick grey fog hugs the castle’s stone, and blackened trees climb its walls trying to escape. One of the walls is starting to crumble into an oily moat. “Not long now.”" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-go... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Good Brother by Anne Wilkins
As we get closer, the land turns dark, the shadows grow longer, and the wind picks up in a ghostly howl. A thick grey fog hugs the castle’s stone, and blackened trees climb its walls trying to escape....
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December 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
BCS of 2025! "A Good Brother" @annewilkins.bsky.social BCS #447 "A thick grey fog hugs the castle’s stone, and blackened trees climb its walls trying to escape. One of the walls is starting to crumble into an oily moat. “Not long now.”" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-go... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head" @japrenticewrites.bsky.social BCS #446 "But Little Thief couldn’t get the head out of her thoughts. Just a quick visit. Just to see if he was all right, other than being dead and rotten." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/litt... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head by J.A. Prentice
She found herself thinking of the head, of how lonely and cold and wet he must be. Why she should think of him—of it—when she herself was shivering and drenched through, she did not know. It seemed a ...
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December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BCS of 2025! "Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head" @japrenticewrites.bsky.social BCS #446 "But Little Thief couldn’t get the head out of her thoughts. Just a quick visit. Just to see if he was all right, other than being dead and rotten." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/litt... #BCSof2025
BCS stories of 2025! "The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King" @jelenawrites.bsky.social Dunato, BCS #429 "Katarina, who had seen her share of premature deaths said, “Nonsense. I’m not a physician, I don’t cut live women open.”" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King by Jelena Dunato
Katarina, who had seen her share of premature deaths said, “Nonsense. I’m not a physician, I don’t cut live women open.” Still, death was coming for Vlasta, diving like a hawk on its dark wings. The b...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
BCS stories of 2025! "The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King" @jelenawrites.bsky.social Dunato, BCS #429 "Katarina, who had seen her share of premature deaths said, “Nonsense. I’m not a physician, I don’t cut live women open.”" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS stories of 2025! "The Village of the Sleeping Dead" by Blue Guldal @fugazulero.bsky.social BCS #426: "There’s a whole dead settlement there. We were the ones who found them. Fırat speculates that a health detention went wrong there" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Village of the Sleeping Dead by Blue Guldal
West, then north, I tell them. There’s a whole dead settlement there. Twenty-three people in total, no kids. We were the ones who found them, five years ago. Fırat speculates that a health detention w...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BCS stories of 2025! "The Village of the Sleeping Dead" by Blue Guldal @fugazulero.bsky.social BCS #426: "There’s a whole dead settlement there. We were the ones who found them. Fırat speculates that a health detention went wrong there" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS stories of 2025! "Lies from a Roadside Vagabond" @aaronperry.bsky.social BCS #432 "The vagabond’s ring did not make my body imperceptible but my intentions. It turned them into incomprehensible things impossible for others to notice." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/lies... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Lies from a Roadside Vagabond by Aaron Perry
Realization bowled me over like a gale. The vagabond’s ring did not make my body imperceptible but my intentions. It turned them into ghostly, incomprehensible things impossible for others to notice. ...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
BCS stories of 2025! "Lies from a Roadside Vagabond" @aaronperry.bsky.social BCS #432 "The vagabond’s ring did not make my body imperceptible but my intentions. It turned them into incomprehensible things impossible for others to notice." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/lies... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "Late Autumn on the Pilgrim’s High Road" @samuelmjensen.bsky.social BCS #424: "He asked for my story in return, not just to be polite. I told him a version of it. The best way to lie is to stick to truth’s back like a shadow." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/late... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Late Autumn on the Pilgrim’s High Road by Samuel Jensen
He asked for my story in return, and not just to be polite. I told him a version of it. The best way to lie is to stick to truth’s back like a shadow. I spoke of the rhythms of temple school life, and...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
BCS of 2025! "Late Autumn on the Pilgrim’s High Road" @samuelmjensen.bsky.social BCS #424: "He asked for my story in return, not just to be polite. I told him a version of it. The best way to lie is to stick to truth’s back like a shadow." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/late... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "Pools of Light at the Center of the World" @willmcmahon36.bsky.social BCS #442 "...and he now wandered alone through the green and bright land of his desire, its air thick with the heady buzz of life, of unseen life..." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pool... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Pools of Light at the Center of the World by Will McMahon
...and he now wandered alone through the green and bright land of his desire, its air thick with the heady buzz of life, of unseen life, and he paused again and crouched, the joints of his body creaki...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
BCS of 2025! "Pools of Light at the Center of the World" @willmcmahon36.bsky.social BCS #442 "...and he now wandered alone through the green and bright land of his desire, its air thick with the heady buzz of life, of unseen life..." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pool... #BCSof2025
BCS 2025! "Vanya and the Dog Witch" @walterwriter.bsky.social BCS #447 "early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For savaging one of their few hens he said. Yet Vanya had seen toothmarks on neither flesh nor bone." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/vany... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Vanya and the Dog Witch by Walter J. Wiese
“My father forbid me to come to you, either with mushrooms or with the dog's collar,” Vanya told the dog witch. It had been early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For sava...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
BCS 2025! "Vanya and the Dog Witch" @walterwriter.bsky.social BCS #447 "early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For savaging one of their few hens he said. Yet Vanya had seen toothmarks on neither flesh nor bone." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/vany... #BCSof2025
BCS 2025! "Postman, Soldier, Traitor" @kaunvijaya.bsky.social BCS #439 "The journey becomes a battle then, of convincing and calming the letter. Every time, Akshar stills it by pressing a hand to it. He will go where the letter takes him." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Postman, Soldier, Traitor by Vijayalaxmi Samal
Sometimes the letter wants to go over bridges already burned. The bridge must have been here when the boy passed. The journey becomes a battle then, of convincing and calming the letter. Every time, A...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
BCS 2025! "Postman, Soldier, Traitor" @kaunvijaya.bsky.social BCS #439 "The journey becomes a battle then, of convincing and calming the letter. Every time, Akshar stills it by pressing a hand to it. He will go where the letter takes him." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post... #BCSof2025