Five days of clear blue skies and fresh breezes have led me to suspect I’ve been displaced into a parallel dimension or simulated universe by some capricious deity or artificial intelligence… but hey, even a False Spring is better than no Spring at all, as far as I’m concerned.
And whatever reality I happen to be perceiving right now, it doesn’t seem to have any shortage of free fiction floating around in it…
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A lone classic novel at ManyBooks: Deathworld by Harry Harrison
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COSMOS Magazine presents “The Broken Hourglass” by Andy Heizler
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HUB Magazine presents “SBIR Proposal“ by Richard K Lyon
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Strange Horizons presents “Nira and I” by Shweta Narayan
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Tor.com presents “We Haven’t Got There Yet” by Harry Turtledove
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Jason Stoddard delivers chapter 3.1 of Eternal Franchise
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Jayme Lynn Blaschke is up to the 34th installment of Memory
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Chris Howard is giving away his novel Seaborn in digital form
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Jeffrey A Carver is giving away copies of his novel Sunborn in multiple DRM-free formats
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Subterranean Online presents “The Dry Spell” by James P Blaylock
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Weird Tales presents “All In” by Peter Atwood
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And as always our thanks to the tireless crew of the USS SF Signal, who boldly go further in search of free fiction online than almost anyone else:
- Chris Dolley is making his book Resonance available as a free download [and an intriguing brain-bender of a story it is, too]
- The latest issue of Concatenation has been posted and includes the story “The Invisible Hand” by Allan M Rees
- Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist presents “The Best Monkey” by Daniel Abraham
- The new issue of Ray Gun Revival features fiction by Adrian Simmons, Paula R Stiles, O Charles Swallows, Jr., Steven Gerard, Chip Meador, M Keaton, Keanan Brand, L S King, and Paul Christian Glenn
- Book View Cafe presents chapter 1 of The Betrayal by Pati Nagle
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Once again my schedule means I’ll miss the bulk of this week’s Friday Flash, but as ever it’ll be collected up in next week’s post. Meanwhile, Sumit Dam came in early enough to make the cut with “The Black Dog“.
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And that’s it for another week, it seems. Don’t forget to let us know of anything you think merits inclusion in Friday Free Fiction; in the meantime, have a good weekend!