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 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 of 2025! "The Loaf in the Woods" by @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social BCS #445: "Olaf loves bread. But this bread, he doesn’t understand. Is he just doomed, and the Gods sent a loaf of bread to put him out of his misery somehow?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Loaf in the Woods by David Marino
Olaf likes bread fine. No, loves bread, loves a good butter loaf or a fruit tart or a lovely strawberry rhubarb pie from home. Hells, earlier in the season he snacked on a nice seed bun as he was walk...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Loaf in the Woods" by @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social BCS #445: "Olaf loves bread. But this bread, he doesn’t understand. Is he just doomed, and the Gods sent a loaf of bread to put him out of his misery somehow?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #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 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
#BCSof2025! "The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time" by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social BCS #444 "Whatever was going on here, he had no choice but to walk into it. He made sure his guns were loose in their holsters" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time by Peter Darbyshire
Azrael went back to the dead horse and considered the trading post for a moment. Whatever was going on here, he had no choice but to walk into it. Nakir had to be still inside, after all. She never le...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#BCSof2025! "The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time" by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social BCS #444 "Whatever was going on here, he had no choice but to walk into it. He made sure his guns were loose in their holsters" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
BCS of 2025! "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" @oluwasigma.bsky.social BCS #444 "a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnatural speed" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
Even as I watch, a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. It growls and looks at the wall that divides the city. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnat...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
BCS of 2025! "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" @oluwasigma.bsky.social BCS #444 "a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnatural speed" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... #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
BCS of 2025! "A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library" Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social BCS #443 "I'm a necromancer, grandchild. The pool of possible spies is far larger among the dead than the living. That is simple mathematics" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library by Chris Willrich
“Oh, no, not at all. I have not retired, and neither have my informants. My informants are dead. I am a necromancer, grandchild. The pool of possible spies is far larger among the dead than the living...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
BCS of 2025! "A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library" Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social BCS #443 "I'm a necromancer, grandchild. The pool of possible spies is far larger among the dead than the living. That is simple mathematics" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "The Third Movement of Time" @rjtaylor.bsky.social BCS #442 "the song of pipes on the wind. It is no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her chest the stirrings of nostalgia, the memory of a song not yet heard." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Third Movement of Time by RJ Taylor
Winter heard nothing unusual, but she listens harder and there is indeed a sound different than twittering. It is the song of pipes on the wind. It is no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her chest the stirrings of nostalgia, the memory of a song not yet heard. The pipes turn into singing, a man’s voice, or a very deep alto, too far off to distinguish the words.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Third Movement of Time" @rjtaylor.bsky.social BCS #442 "the song of pipes on the wind. It is no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her chest the stirrings of nostalgia, the memory of a song not yet heard." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "The Last of Atlantis" by James Morrow, BCS #442 "The philosopher turned to vapor, and the sunsphere led me away, eventually bringing me back to where I’d begun, the garden of Platonic solids. Once again cubeness beguiled me" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Last of Atlantis by James Morrow
The philosopher turned to vapor, and the sunsphere led me away, eventually bringing me back to where I’d begun, the garden of Platonic solids. Once again cubeness beguiled me, and once again I lifted ...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Last of Atlantis" by James Morrow, BCS #442 "The philosopher turned to vapor, and the sunsphere led me away, eventually bringing me back to where I’d begun, the garden of Platonic solids. Once again cubeness beguiled me" 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 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! "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! "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! "Bloody Muddy Water" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #439 "Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect against conja." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
BCS of 2025! "Bloody Muddy Water" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #439 "Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect against conja." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "Compass Rose, Running" Julie Reeser, BCS #440 "That house was home, and I cried to go, but I couldn’t stay. Too big to fit in my pocket. Almost too big to fit in my memories. Mama Patch had to know, right?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/comp... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Compass Rose, Running by Julie Reeser
That house was home, and I cried to go, but I couldn’t stay. Too big to fit in my pocket. Almost too big to fit in my memories. Nights now, when Matron and her card players at the Eight Den get tense ...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BCS of 2025! "Compass Rose, Running" Julie Reeser, BCS #440 "That house was home, and I cried to go, but I couldn’t stay. Too big to fit in my pocket. Almost too big to fit in my memories. Mama Patch had to know, right?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/comp... #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
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 of 2025! "The Forgotten" @traewrites.bsky.social Hawkins, BCS #438 "And though you are aware of your mind’s steady emptying, you recognize that you have come this far, to this land so cold and unforgiving, to support a life you detest." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Forgotten by Trae Hawkins
And though you are aware of your mind’s steady emptying, you recognize that you have come this far, to this land so cold and unforgiving, to support a life you detest. You recognize that, like the For...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Forgotten" @traewrites.bsky.social Hawkins, BCS #438 "And though you are aware of your mind’s steady emptying, you recognize that you have come this far, to this land so cold and unforgiving, to support a life you detest." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #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 2025! "Woman Like Stone Like Water" @aardwyrm.bsky.social BCS #437: "he scooted away from her, a skittering movement that would have been funny to see out of a big, gawky beast like him if she weren’t afraid he’d pull at his injuries." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/woma... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Woman Like Stone Like Water by Malda Marlys
The stranger turned at the noise she was making and stared at her rather rudely. (Did plains people not train their children properly?) He didn’t quite seem able to stand, but he scooted away from her...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
BCS 2025! "Woman Like Stone Like Water" @aardwyrm.bsky.social BCS #437: "he scooted away from her, a skittering movement that would have been funny to see out of a big, gawky beast like him if she weren’t afraid he’d pull at his injuries." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/woma... #BCSof2025
BCS of 2025! "The Feather Tree" @kjkabza.bsky.social BCS #435 "It was not the same as giving up hope because hope was not a single, stone-fired thing but a thing like a marshland, made of uncountable pieces of intertwined yet separate life" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Feather Tree by KJ Kabza
Loory thought about this. It was not the same, exactly, as giving up hope because hope was not a single, stone-fired thing (when once broken, never the same) but a thing like a marshland, made of unco...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Feather Tree" @kjkabza.bsky.social BCS #435 "It was not the same as giving up hope because hope was not a single, stone-fired thing but a thing like a marshland, made of uncountable pieces of intertwined yet separate life" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
BCS 2025! "Out of Draconia" @almaalexander.bsky.social BCS #436 "back into the village, staggering, thin to the point of being gaunt, her eyes hollowed out...but blazing. And cradled across her body in a makeshift sling...was a dragon egg." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/out-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Out of Draconia by Alma Alexander
She was gone for a long time—so long, in fact, that I began to come to terms with the possibility that she would never return, and to regret my urging for her to go out there and seek her dragon-egg f...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BCS 2025! "Out of Draconia" @almaalexander.bsky.social BCS #436 "back into the village, staggering, thin to the point of being gaunt, her eyes hollowed out...but blazing. And cradled across her body in a makeshift sling...was a dragon egg." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/out-... #BCSof2025