BCS 351: Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth

By Adrian Ward, from Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRegarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame.More info »

By Will McMahon, from Issue #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine...to find that he now could not be certain of which way he had come...More info »

By Kate Francia, from Issue #441 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She could do this simple thing: walk through her door.More info »

By Vijayalaxmi Samal, from Issue #439 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.There is nowhere else he could go. He will go where the letter takes him.More info »

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 »

By KJ Kabza, from Issue #435 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Loory felt a corresponding restless within himself—a shifting, a re-opening, of places that felt both predestined and newly made.More info »

By Grace Seybold, from Issue #432 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.I would be a sword no longer.More info »

By Eleanor Elizabeth Fog, from Issue #431 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Of all the follies I'd expected, this wasn’t one of them. “You want to carry this parcel that’s been dumped on you without having any say in the matter?”More info »

By Jelena Dunato, from Issue #429 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He approached Katarina in one smooth move, too fast for her eyes to follow. He smelled of wet leaves and dark forest earth.More info »

By Nicole L. Soper Gorden, from Issue #427 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But no visitor here would dare turn her in, whether they left with a cloud or not.More info »