The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year Three

View full versionAn armonica player is driven manic by appearances of an audience woman he saw die....

A fallen angel gunslinger must defend a dusty town against hellspawn....
 
A scientist tries to save his brother from a seductress who plants flower bulbs in her lovers’ chests....
 
A bon-vivant is horrified to join his dinner hosts in swallowing live squid, until his head turns into one....
 

Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine

View full versionA gardensmith crafts fanciful clockworks to enchant his noblewoman love....

Four burghers renege on a dark bargain by commissioning an automaton proxy....
 
A restless librarian yearns to escape a city that bounces up and down in the sky.... 
 
A flock of clockwork birds tries to redeem their Jaguar Knight creator....
 

The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year Two

View full versionA foreigner duels his lover’s clan with a living sword grown from bone....

A captain’s daughter must write a poem to free her becalmed ship....
 
A troubador plays a world-destroying song for a countess’s execution....
 
A flock of clockwork birds tries to redeem their Jaguar Knight creator....
 

The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year One

View full versionA poet and a thief must carry a magic sword that makes them alarmingly cheerful....

A god made of corn stalks haunts a woman whose heart was cut out....
 
A samurai investigating a ruined mansion finds a ghost of his long-dead brother....