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Showing posts with label Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

The Transubstantiation, by Evan Dicken

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[ BCS ] ★★★★★ When Heroes fall, there are still heroes. (Fantasy Adventure) Deff and his team hunt the countryside for illegal Heroes, wh...

Fire and Falling, by Andrew Dykstal

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[ BCS ] ★★★★☆ Plenty of Excitement in an Interesting Setting (Steampunk Thriller) Mir’s mission to deliver codebooks gets complicated whe...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Satin and Velvet, by Robert Minto

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention (Magician’s Apprentice) At just 16, Greta is pretty young for an apprentice, but somehow she’s drawn the ...

The Many Lives of an Abiku, by Tobi Ogundiran

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Yoruba Horror) Sola loves her family and wants to be a good girl. The shaman’s claims that she’s really an evil spirit com...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Seven Dreams of a Valley, by Prashanth Srivatsa

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Indian Fantasy ) The night watchman was warned not to look at the imprisoned witch, Kalmashi, but it was hard not to, and...
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Buttercream and Broken Wings, by Aimee Ogden

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Dark Fantasy) Fairies depend on humans to leave gifts of food, but when the old widow Willowbright had depended on dies, s...
Friday, July 3, 2020

The Augur and the Girl Left at His Door, by Greta Hayer

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention (High Fantasy) The Augur can tell your future just by studying the skin on your body. His prophecies are ...

Kill the Witchman, by William Broom

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Dark Fantasy) A man seeking to kill the Witchman continually erases his most recent memories, which makes the task much ha...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Breath of the Sahara, by Inegbenoise O. Osagie

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[ BCS ] ★★★★☆ A moving tale with interesting characters in a cool setting. (African Fantasy) In a magical sub-Saharan Africa, two girls s...

The Widow, by Emma Törzs

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Historical Horror) A young woman in 17th-Century Paris tells how the effort to treat her insane husband went awry. (5,682...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Honey of the World and the Queen of Crows, by Dimitra Nikolaidou

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Afterlife) Leandros remembers dying when the shell hit his trench, but in the liminal space between worlds, he’s offered a...

Clever Jack, Heavy with Stories, by R.K. Duncan

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[ BCS ] ★★★★★ An unexpected adventure in a beautiful, dangerous place. (Portal Fairy Tale) Teenage Jack, the cook’s boy, and Roderick, Lo...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Fox Red, Life Red, Teeth Like Snow, by Devin Miller

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Norse Fantasy) A troll steals a human baby to raise as a troll, just as she herself was. (2,288 words;  Time : 07m)

February Moon, by Josh Rountree

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[ BCS ] ★★★★☆ A steady build up to a shattering climax. (Horror) In 19th-Century Texas, a German immigrant mother defends her farm and fa...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Lonely Children Lost at Sea, by Wendy Nikel

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Dark Portal Fantasy) A small community clings to a beach where stuff from our world washes up regularly—including small ch...

Who Goes Against a Waste of Waters, by Eleanna Castroianni

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Dark Fantasy) The young narrator and one sibling continue herding ghost sheep after their parents have gone, but how long ...

As The Shore To The Tides, So Blood Calls To Blood, by Karlo Yeager Rodriguez

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention (Dark Fantasy) Don Jacinto flees when he gets a letter from his crazy brother, not wanting to get involve...

Her Cage of Root and Bone, by Kali Wallace

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Dark Fantasy) Lottie’s sister has held her captive for decades, but today she pays her one final visit. (3,688 words;  Ti...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Never a Butterfly, Nor a Moth With Moon-Painted Wings, by Aimee Ogden

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Fantasy) After war destroys their homeland, the Butterfly People come to Ksmal as refugees. They’re welcome, but only if t...

To Balance the Weight of Khalem, by R.B. Lemberg

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[ BCS ] ★★★☆☆ (Allegory) The story of how Belezal, a war refugee in Khalem managed to escape to a better country and how he came to terms...