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Friday Free Fiction for 19th December

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the days to start getting longer again. Still, we’re nearly there now, and it’s holiday time for most of us – so put your feet up and enjoy some free science fiction stories, why don’tcha?

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Here’s a few from Feedbooks:

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A reminder from EOS/HarperCollins:

For November and December only, click to download a free eBook of Adam Troy Castro’s Emissaries From the Dead.

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Strange Horizons presents “How to Hold Your Breath” by Meredith Schwartz

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Tor.com presents “Firstborn” by Brandon Sanderson (the guy who’s finishing off the Wheel of Time series, apparently).

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Mindflights presents “The Void Test” by Therese L Arkenberg.

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Polu Texni presents part 2 of “Running Free” by Mark Sherwood

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It’s been a while since the last instalment, but things are back on track with Memory #29 from Jayme Lynn Blaschke

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Something more than a trifle blasphemous from Hal Duncan:

See, y’all know Revelation, right? The last book of the New Testament, the one with all the Antichrist and Armageddon gubbins, all the Rapture and wrath of God malarky? You may not have read it, but you’re bound to be familiar with its zany eschatological content, even if only by way of horror movies and heavy metal lyrics. Well, if you have read it, you may recall the lines where a curse is laid out on anyone that fucks around with the text. Add to the words of this book, we’re told, and that’s bad news, baby. Take away from the words of this book, and that’s just as bad. We’re talking biblical plagues, baby, a pointy reckoning upon anyone who adds to or takes away from the words of this book.

Course, it doesn’t say anything about changing the order of those words.

Which is exactly what he has done; violent eRa is a story told using all the words from the book of Revelation in a different order, featuring God as the villain of the piece. Not that Duncan seems particularly bothered by the risk of a curse, anyway…

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SpaceWesterns presents:

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Here are the extras that the SF Signal crew picked up:

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And here’s some Friday Flash Fiction, some of which has a festive flavour:

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And that’s about your lot. Friday Free Fiction is going to go into hibernation until the new year (because most everyone will be too busy to pay any attention, AMIRITE?), but your tip-offs and plugs are always welcome for the next instalment on January 2nd. Adios!