We don’t do AI. Not for covers. Not for editing. Not for sifting through our submissions. You can tell this because we’re so slow. We have anti AI clauses in our manuscript contracts. If we discover AI was used, we will be unhappy.

If you come up with big ideas that you want to explore, let those ideas guide you through the writing. It's perfectly fine to start with a character or world, but it's perfectly fine also to start with a question or theme or relationship dynamic you want to explore.

BCS #405 ebook out early today at Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of river spirits engaged with humans by Christine Hanolsy and Liana Richmond, behind cover art by Nele Diel: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneat… amazon.com/Beneath-Ceasel…

New issue of BCS Online Magazine is here! Featuring stories by Christine Hanolsy and Liana Richmond and cover art by Nele Diel: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceasel…

BCS Online Magazine Devin Miller 🐋🎃 Listened to the podcast last night. Loved it!

Live in BCS #404: 'The Coffee of Torcat' by Devin Miller 🐋🎃. 'Osa's hope was that the memory contained some piece of information. If it did, she would offer it to the Queen. If Holal had stolen this memory, she could not forgive that violation of her mind.' beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-co…

New Issue: BCS #404, stories of intrigue or mystery affected by a world’s history by returning BCS authors Devin Miller 🐋🎃 and Jonathan Edelstein, podcast of the Miller read by Maxine L Moore, From the BCS Archives story Siobhan Carroll (also on the Blue Place), cover art Nele Diel: beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-4…

Live in BCS #403: 'On Slate and Skin' Jonathan Olfert. 'she wanted him to give in to the urge he'd fought for years: to write out the burned book in full. What she was asking was repulsive. It cut far too close to the bone and left deep things bleeding.' beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/on-sla…

BCS #404 ebook out early today Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of intrigue or mystery affected by a world’s history by Devin Miller 🐋🎃 and Jonathan Edelstein, behind cover art by Nele Diel: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneat… amazon.com/Beneath-Ceasel…

New issue of BCS Online Magazine is here! weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceasel…

Proud to share that my Sci-Fi Fantasy, 'The Rug Maker & The Wonder Collector' was just published at Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It's a short read. If you need a moment of departure from the daily grind, click through and check it out!

For Sunday a review of When Your Being Here Is Gentler Than Your Absence Hard by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko in Beneath Ceaseless Skies nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2021/08/i-read…

New Issue: BCS #403 out today, featuring stories of tangling with burdens of magic by Jonathan Olfert and Adam Breckenridge, a podcast of the Breckenridge read by SaltPDX, and a From the BCS Archives story by AJ Lucy, behind cover art by Nele Diel: beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-4…

Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Escape Pod, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Fusion Fragment locusmag.com/2024/03/charle…

Live in BCS #402: 'A Magician Did It' Rich Larson. 'Olaf coats himself with the sludge. It's a sort of protective glamor against the prison’s guards, but he knows little beyond that. The cockroach was more insistent about the recipe than about the theory' beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-magi…

Live BCS #402: 'The Throw, The Catch, The Swap' Michael Evans. “A charmer never tells, but for you, Judge, I’ll make an exception. The cards are made specially by a chemist in Iradan with layers of reactive paint. One burns off, and the fire turns green.' beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-th…

My latest short fiction roundup features stories from Metaphorosis Publish Nightmare Magazine clarkesworld Flash Fiction Online Cast of Wonders Strange Horizons BCS Online Magazine Diabolical Plots: Ignyte Award Winner! The Deadlands Apex Magazine Psychopomp.com & PseudoPod.

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ICYMI: my short story recs from Dec and Jan, with stories from BCS Online Magazine khōréō magazine clarkesworld Strange Horizons MorningTransport The Rumpus Fantasy Magazine and House of Gamut

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Really enjoyed 'A Magician Did It' by Rich Larson in the latest issue of BCS Online Magazine. Made me laugh out loud several times. beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-magi…

BCS #403 ebook is out early today at Weightless Books & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of tangling with burdens of magic by Jonathan Olfert and Adam Breckenridge, behind cover art by Nele Diel: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneat… amazon.com/Beneath-Ceasel…