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(High Fantasy) Years ago, Dierponte
Hast suppressed a treasonous play by a renegade alchemist, and he’s shocked
to hear someone reciting from it all these years later.
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(Horror) Sylvie lost both of her
parents, and she’s running out of food, but a magic carrot offers a way to
bring them back.
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(High Fantasy) Lillian likes the most
recent world, and she doesn’t want her uncles to tear it down. But they’ve
already dismantled the sun, so she’ll have to move fast.
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A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power
by Rose Lemberg
Time: 2h:07m (Novella) Issue: BCS 229
(High Fantasy; Birdverse) The Old
Royal has ruled the desert for millennia from their palace where a star once
fell, but the arrival of a young stranger brings chaos.
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(High Fantasy) Solveig seeks vengeance
for the magical plague that took her beloved husband, but she can’t act
openly or else she risks dragging her own country into a war.
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(High Fantasy) Almas fears that the
new commander will try to dispose of the wounded enemy children she cares for
in her clinic—particularly since he’s the one who destroyed their town.
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(Fantasy Horror) Sleeping monsters
keep turning up outside the village, and the villagers are making
uncomfortable connections with Magda because she too hibernates for months at
a time.
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(Clockwork Fantasy) Zee lives with her
father in a windup world. Bored with her life, she decides to visit the
carnival. She meets a boy, and things
go from there.
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(High Fantasy) The last Theodoran
priest tries to save the last of their saints from destruction by an empire
that has its own priests and saints.
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(Fantasy) Four children sneak out to
investigate a Hole, even though they're dangerous and forbidden.
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(High Fantasy) She rules by virtue of
her power to kill merely by speaking a name, but she faces attack from an
enemy with an immortal army.
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(Fantasy) Staggerlee loves a good
fight, and wishes Fennario had more dangerous men in it. Then he meets the
Wolf in a card game.
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(Fantasy Adventure) Tired of
immortality, Pentheas seeks the one tree that can hang him. Eternally
pregnant, Serah seeks an end to it one way or another. So they’re going to
work together. Somehow.
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(Dark Fantasy) Her grandmother stopped
the darkness at great price, so when Elseir comes to Tomas’s village, he’s
eager to help her in her new quest. Whatever it is.
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(Historical Fantasy) In the old west,
in a terrible drought, the narrator seeks vengeance with a pistol and two
very special silver bullets.
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(High Fantasy) A gallows girl uses her
power to let hanged men take a little innocence to the next world. Kal’s
sister was a great one, but Kal worries that her first assignment won’t go
right.
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(High Fantasy) Lash helped destroy the
city of Amarana for the revolution, but languishing in prison he feels
remorse. Then someone comes to help him escape.
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(Alternate History Fantasy) In an Old
West where people still worship pagan gods, Marcus plans to sneak away from
his cattle drive to find the lost statue of Mithras his family once
worshiped.
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(High Fantasy) Jeone has been
descending the World Cliff for years, but she's never seen a town quite as
strange as Shasten Dhu.
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(Fantasy Adventure) The young Marquis
has to marry for money, and he’s not quite sure how his new wife is going to
cope with his mistress.
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(High Fantasy) Jared has almost
brought the princess to safety, but he worries that Kat, the crazy women who
accompanies them, might have betrayed them.
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(Chinese Historical Fantasy; Pan Bao
and Jing) Jing and her father climb a mountain to find and kill a Snake-Devil
that has been killing people and goats, but she’s not exactly what they
expected.
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(High Fantasy) Bekka is apprentice to
the local witch, and she's off to collect pixies. Joakem wants to walk with
her, and she can't tell him no.
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(Historical Fantasy) On the Erie
Canal, a young man and his bride confront an author who doesn’t believe in
the supernatural at all.
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(High Fantasy) In Laria, summer
doesn’t end unless someone summons the god Hulokk, and he usually takes a
human sacrifice. Sal is one of the best summoners, but she’s tired of losing
friends.
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(Dark Fantasy) At sunset, Ezekiel
Nightshade, King of Night, rises from the earth and heads for an appointment
with a dying woman. But her seven-year-old daughter bars the way.
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(High Fantasy) Tarangkaya made Bidaten
into supersoldier from infancy, and she’s been content to serve them for
years. Then her mistress takes a new bride who makes her think differently.
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(Alternate History Fantasy) Taharah’s
magic makes language come alive for audiences, but she seeks knowledge of her
people’s ancient, forgotten tongue.
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(Chinese Historical Fantasy; Pan Bao
and Jing) Pan Bao, his daughter Jing, and their snake-devil friend, Mei Li,
encounter a ghost who needs help. They usually expect to be paid for their
sorcery, but the ghost is very persistent.
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(Post-Apocalypse) Obb is sure he’s not
really “disordered,” but his family have sent him away to a monastery where
the church forces people like him to learn math.
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(Historical Fantasy) Lovis uses her
magic to help the resistance against the tyrannical brother of the king. When
the king dies in battle, she has to make some hard decisions.
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(Historical Fantasy) In 1588, Filippo
needs the shape-shifter codex he left with a friend, who should have known
better than to try to use the codex by himself.
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(High Fantasy) Sarai’s talent lies in
scents, but she pursues poisons to get revenge on the queen who imprisoned
her on this island.
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(Steampunk/Horror) The narrator flies
a lantern ship, a balloon with a special light that keeps away the ghosts
that gather during storms. Out of money, she’s desperate enough to take a
dangerous contract from a man she hates.
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(High Fantasy) Four river spirits flee
across the desert to escape the people who dammed them and find their way to
the sea.
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(High Fantasy) The city of Vannat
offers forgiveness to former war criminals, but those it deems unworthy get
trapped inside stone walls that appear out of nowhere.
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(Chinese Historical Fantasy; Candyman
Ao) To undo some of the damage caused the last time he invoked zodiacal
spirits, Ao needs to lift a pair of conflicting curses cast by two warring
spirits.
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(Fantasy Apocalypse) In a dying world,
Orha hunts a band of raiders who’ve been killing families and stealing
children.
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(Historical Fantasy) In the first days
of World War I, young Oskar is left to manage the Mundaneum as the Germans
approach. He’s nervous, but hopeful they’ll respect the institution and its
priceless artifacts.
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(Fantasy Adventure) Nev has been in
hiding for eight years, so when some men offer him too good a deal to sell
their fish, he suspects a trap.
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(Alternate History Fantasy) Viola
helps keep the 1888 election free of influence from Faery, which almost
destroyed the country in 1876. In a little Minnesota town, she’s about to
meet a stronger-than-expected adversary.
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(Historical Slipstream) Twenty years
ago, Jonas rode a Pleesaur back when the frontier was wild. Now he just wants
enough money to go home.
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The Mouth of the Oyster by Adam-Troy Castro and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: BCS 239
(High Fantasy) Plague took the
narrator’s vision, but now he has the opportunity to get new eyes. Eyes that
might see narrowly but too well.
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(High Fantasy; Tasik) The shark god
rises from under Mei’s island home, leaving all the inhabitants homeless or
drowned. She escapes and finds a home, but the shark god still has plans for
her.
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(Fantasy Adventure) Viorica attempts
to steal the famed Εiret Mask from CodruΕ£, brother of her dear friend. There
are lots of complications, not least of which that CodruΕ£ expects someone to
try to take it.
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(High Fantasy) Diogenes ought to be
using the magician’s floating castle to help the emperor, but he feels
obliged to honor his promise to restore Sylva’s body to her—even if it
destroys the world.
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(High Fantasy) Since the Grey Men took
his mother and the rest of the villagers away, Folu has hidden in the ruins
of the cathedral. But winter is coming, and he doesn’t know how he’ll feed
himself.
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(Dark Fantasy) In a town where
becoming an adult means surrendering a body part and getting a ghostly
replacement, the narrator opts to sacrifice a finger, but their twin sister
has something extreme in mind.
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(High Fantasy) The state cannot
execute Sere for treason if she can prove that she’s “life-laced,” since that
would kill her innocent lover too, but revealing it could ruin her lover’s
life.
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(Fairy Tale) You are a knight cursed
to kidnap maidens and the die trying to keep them when a knight comes to
rescue them. Over and over.
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(Mythic Fantasy) Because the gods
abandoned her people, she has sworn to kill them. Now only one remains.
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(High Fantasy Horror) The empire’s
immortal nobles are hopelessly jaded, and Dejanira’s parties bring them
excitement through the threat of death.
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Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves
by Claire Humphrey Time: 11m (ShortStory)
Issue: BCS 216
(Mainstream) William works for his
eccentric uncle while other young Canadian men go off to World War I.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017 Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine
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