Enjoy these downloadable free audio stories of climate fiction, science fiction, and cosmic horror short stories. You’ll find a full-length novelette, full-length short stories, and excerpts from my novels.
The Future History of the Grail
An audio excerpt from the audiobook version of Fall of the Green Land, narrated by Joshua Young. It’s the first book in the series, The Future History of the Grail, is available here. Listen to excerpts from War for the Green Land, and Return to the Green Land on their Amazon pages.
The Mother Earth Insurgency
On a future Earth facing a climate disaster, a government agent infiltrates a terrorist group bent on destroying a launch tower 20-kilometers tall, killing thousands. In this free story, listen to the author read the entire novelette, The Mother Earth Insurgency. It’s the first science fiction story in the series, Tales From a Warming Planet.
Carbon Run (chapter 1)
Climate change is rampant, fossil fuels are banned, and a young woman searches for her father, who’s on the run from an obsessed security agent. Ben Franke of the Indie Beginning podcast reads the full-length chapter one of Carbon Run, the first science fiction novel in my series Tales From A Warming Planet.
City of Ice and Dreams
Decades from now, in an Antarctica damaged by climate change, a woman leads a ragtag group of refugees to find a lost city and a new life, while facing resistance from the continent’s inhabitants. City of Ice and Dreams is a science fiction novel in my series, Tales From a Warming Planet.
Restoration
In a world threatened by climate disaster, a sassy, independent city girl finds herself in a small, conservative town that’s resisting a plan to take down an irrigation dam. Restoration is the third novel in my climate fiction series, Tales From a Warming Planet.
Zillah Harmonia
In a future decade when fixing climate change is the world’s top priority, an elderly homeowner must decide whether to fight a citation that might mean the loss of her home. This free story in the science fiction genre is the first of a series of shorts set in the world of Tales From A Warming Planet. A version of this story was published in the Winter 2018 edition of Bards & Sages Quarterly.
Living In Infamy
In a future when fossil fuels are banned due to climate change, the captain of a US Navy destroyer, plagued by guilt over a friendly-fire incident, hunts a dangerous carbon smuggler and gets help from a disgraced, dead relative. This ghost story is one in a series of shorts set in the world of Tales From A Warming Planet.
A War Beyond War, and I Am the Only Soldier
“We found him in his cell, sitting on his pallet. His eyes were wide and sweat trickled from his hair; his tonsure was freshly shaven. He didn’t stir at our approach, and I touched his forehead. It was cool. Then he awoke from his trance, and gazed at us with eyes that will now forever haunt me.” In 13th century France, a scribe at a monastery tells the story of the frightening transformation of Dominic de la Traversée. The fantasy horror story appeared in Satirica: An Anthology of Satirical Speculative Fiction, published in 2008. A version of the story also appeared in Dreams and Visions magazine #36, published by Skysong Press.
The Arc of Hronos
“I’ve almost finished checking those measurements. That tooth—it looks homo sapiens. This could be huge…” In this story published on the audio speculative fiction magazine Drabblecast December 29, 2007, tragedy strikes the marriage of an archaeologist and her time-traveler husband. This science fiction story was written under my sometime pen name Anden Sharp.
The Warden’s Last Day
“It was 11 at night, and only a few shouts of men in the lifer block penetrated the concrete walls of death row. My name is Michael Zlocinac, and I am a warden of U.S. Federal Penitentiary at Magdalena, New Mexico…” The titular protagonist explains his complicated history, and the moral conundrums it presents. This horror story is a rumination on capital punishment, legacy, and war. Published on the audio speculative fiction magazine Drabblecast October 3, 2007. The story was written under the pen name Anden Sharp.
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