Audiobooks can be an efficient, engaging way to read while you’re on the move or keeping your hands busy, but finding cheap audiobooks can be difficult, especially if you don’t want to support Amazon. But while full-length books are usually carefully guarded behind a paywall, free short stories abound on the net! If you’re looking for your next read, try out:
- Escape Artist suite: The Escape Artist is a collection of speculative short story podcasts, all available for free on Spotify and on their website. The podcasts include:
- PodCastle: fantasy fiction
- Escape Pod: science fiction
- Pseudopod: horror
- Cast of Wonders: young adult speculative fiction
- Catscast: speculative and cat-centered
- Clarkesworld: science fiction and fantasy
- Tall Tale TV: science fiction and fantasy
- Lightspeed Magazine: science fiction and fantasy
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies: literary fantasy
- Levar Burton Reads: fictional stories (all genres)
- Selected shorts: classic and contemporary fiction, read by famous actors
- Apex Magazine: genre fiction
- Nightmare Magazine: horror and dark fantasy
- 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: classic fiction
- The Writer’s Voice: literary fiction from The New Yorker
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