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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 7h

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @librariangoblin.bsky.social and Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social and cover art by @brucedraws.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #443

Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward nd cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Live in BCS #442: "Pools of Light at the Center of the World" @willmcmahon36.bsky.social "...and the singing of the insects reminded him of another villain in the story of his exile, which was the lute player, from whose clicking mandibles had come..." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pool...

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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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 3d

If you want a taste of the merkingdoms of the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms before you buy a copy, here's "When Sirens Sing of Roses and of Delegated Power" in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, published in 2019.
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#BookSky 💙 📚 #sirens #mermaids 🧜‍♀️

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Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe is querying! @oluwasigma.bsky.social · 5d

Contract signed & I'm happy to announce that my short story, A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons, which is a sequel to my Ignyte Award winning story, will be published in a future issue of the inimitable Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. 📜🧙🏿😈

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d

I say this because there’s no universal experience for subs selection, or being edited at a magazine.

And because I think we tend to correlate “editor” with a certain authority—

When I believe that authority is earned through supporting writers & staff, not when you give yourself that title.

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine.

There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself.

Many of these people are amazing—

But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love.

Just people.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely! If I didn’t believe anyone could—maybe should—start a zine, I never would have started Kaleidotrope. (I’m just this guy, y’know?) I’d like to think I’m a better editor and publisher than I was two decades earlier, but it’s an ongoing learning experience.

Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine.

There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself.

Many of these people are amazing—

But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love.

Just people.

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 6d

My story “Pools of Light at the Center of the World,” a 2800-word sentence about a shipwrecked Andalusian merchant losing his mind in a field, is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! Check it out. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pool...

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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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 6d

New Issue: BCS #442 Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue, with stories by James Morrow and @willmcmahon36.bsky.social today, @patricksamphire.bsky.social and @rjtaylor.bsky.social next week (but in the ebook now), McMahon podcast, art Bruce Brenneise: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue by Scott Andrews

Featuring new cover art: "Arbor" by Bruce Brenneise. . The Last of Atlantis by James Morrow. The Thirteenth Time by Patrick Samphire. The Third Movement of Time by RJ Taylor. Pools of Light at the Cen...

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The Void Reader @thevoidreader.bsky.social · 6d

@bcsmagazine.bsky.social New episode of Beneath Ceaseless Skies is out 🚀

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#scifi #scifibookreviews
#booktube #horror #goodreads #booksky
#comics #graphicnovels #podcasts #audiobooks #beneathceaselessskies

BCS 352: Pools of Light at the Center of the World

Podcast Episode · Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts · 10/02/2025 · 19m

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Also re: publishers' use of AI: do they use gen AI to produce audio narration of prose pieces.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 8d

Indeed! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/thro...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Throwing Stones by Mishell Baker

The body was my own, and not my own. It was no mere trick for others’ eyes; my very joints seemed strung together more loosely, and my breasts ached under the tight bindings I had always worn. By the ...

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 8d

My first published story, "Throwing Stones", in Beneath Ceaseless Skies :)

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 8d

New cover art, starting with BCS #442 Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue this Thurs, with stories by James Morrow @patricksamphire.bsky.social @rjtaylor.bsky.social @willmcmahon36.bsky.social: "Arbor" by Bruce Brenneise. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/artwork/arbor/

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Arbor by Scott Andrews

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for the kind words!!

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

You're welcome! I'm glad you raised the point. To me you did not sound accusatory at all. Totally understandable for submitting writers to be concerned. (The top thing I hate in the entire AI situation is the suspicion and fear it's causing. :( For editors, writers, readers, reviewers; everyone.)

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

Please know that at BCS, it's hugely important to us to not have 'false positives'. We don't treat subs or submittors as AI unless we're sure. We're not looking at em-dashes or key words. We're doubly careful with English as Second Language subs. Any sub we're not sure if it's AI, we treat as human.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

Please know that at BCS, it's hugely important to us to not have 'false positives'. We don't treat subs or submittors as AI unless we're sure. We're not looking at em-dashes or key words. We're doubly careful with English as Second Language subs. Any sub we're not sure if it's AI, we treat as human.

Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

My only fear with this is being accused when I use no AI but do use stuff like m dashes that are frequently marked AS AI but I think people who make their jobs writing will probably be better equipped than most.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

For BCS, very much this. We're seeing a lot more gen AI and especially part AI/part human 'hybrid' subs this summer, we've gotten better at spotting them, and we're noting who has sent them.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

For BCS, very much this. We're seeing a lot more gen AI and especially part AI/part human 'hybrid' subs this summer, we've gotten better at spotting them, and we're noting who has sent them.

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 9d

I just want to add: the chances of an editor not noticing, much less thinking the story is good enough to publish, are incredibly slim, while the consequences for submitting AI to publishers who don’t want it are likely severe and lasting. You might as well try writing the story yourself.

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 10d

Let’s say you “write” a story with AI, and you don’t disclose that to an editor, who somehow doesn’t realize and publishes the story, which no reader ever calls out as AI—what of any worth, exactly, have you accomplished?

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 10d

Let’s say you “write” a story with AI, and you don’t disclose that to an editor, who somehow doesn’t realize and publishes the story, which no reader ever calls out as AI—what of any worth, exactly, have you accomplished?

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N. A. Dawn, Author @nadawn.bsky.social · 10d

@katefrancia.bsky.social’s
‘Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth’ in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social binds its delicate character study and crisply textured world, personal history and collective destiny, with nettled vine. The finale looms like a hungry shadow.

#sff #fantasy #shortstories #fiction

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Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · 12d

An exceptional, heartbreaking story about grief and loss, Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth by @katefrancia.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth by Kate Francia

The wind wailed around the tiny pile of stones at the base of the blackthorn tree. She stood for a moment, eyes closed, willing herself to move. She could do this simple thing: walk through her door. ...

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Alex Butzier @butzier.com · 13d

@almaalexander.bsky.social I just listened to "Out of Draconia" on @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. It is a truly beautiful story.
#fantasy #speculativeFiction #reading

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts - BCS 349: Out of Draconia

Listen to Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts - BCS 349: Out of Draconia by Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine on Podcast Addict. By Alma Alexander, from Issue #436 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.That was why I did it. That was why, when she turned eleven, I said to her, “Go to Draconia. Look for your egg.”More info »

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 13d

Live right now in BCS #441: "Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth" by @katefrancia.bsky.social "The wind wailed around the tiny pile of stones at the base of the blackthorn tree. She stood for a moment, eyes closed, willing herself to move." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth by Kate Francia

The wind wailed around the tiny pile of stones at the base of the blackthorn tree. She stood for a moment, eyes closed, willing herself to move. She could do this simple thing: walk through her door. ...

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 14d

My story “Pools of Light at the Center of the World,” a 2800-word sentence about a shipwrecked medieval Andalusian merchant, is out today in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social for subscribers and via @weightlessbooks.bsky.social. Check it out!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 14d

BCS #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue ebook out early today @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, stories James Morrow @patricksamphire.bsky.social @rjtaylor.bsky.social @willmcmahon36.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue

Issue #442 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, our Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue, featuring stories by James Morrow, Patrick Samphire, RJ Taylor, and Will McMahon.

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