BCS #216 is out today, featuring shifting-memory tales from a returning BCS author and a new one, and a new, guest-narrated episode of the BCS Audio Fiction Podcast.

Claire Humphrey (“Your Figure Will Assume Beautiful Outlines” in BCS #135) returns to BCS with “Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves,” a story of odd magic and odd family dynamic.

Eleanna Castroianni offers “Think Of Winter,” a tale of odd dynamic between a family survivor and the outsider that comes calling.

The BCS Audio Fiction Podcast returns with BCS 187: Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves, the Claire Humphrey story. It’s guest-narrated by Michael J. DeLuca, who has read past BCS podcasts including BCS 174: Whale-Oil by Sylvia V. Linsteadt and BCS 179: Mortal Eyes by Ann Chatham.

The From the Archives story with BCS #216 is “Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes” by A.B. Treadwell, from BCS #116 and podcast BCS 099, a tale of family dynamic perturbed by the arrival of an outsider.

All behind a new crop of our cover art for the winter season: “The Sacred Flames” by Jinxu Du.