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Ted Kosmatka - "The Ascendant" (novelette, anarchy, free): A less interesting variation of Heinlein's "Coventry"
Variety SF — ... let alone to ground. Civilization is in upper floors where they grow food & have some sort of semi-tribal society. Below that are "prison" levels - a one-way street for convicts of civilization, convictions themselves apparently of an utterly degenerate society. Fact sheet. First published: Subterranean Online, Spring 2009. Rating: B. Download full text from publisher's site. Related: Stories of Ted Kosmatka. ...

SF Tidbits for 4/21/09
SF Signal — ... Lois McMaster Bujold. @Bibliophile Stalker: Paul Di Filippo. REVIEWS: Paul DiFilippo reviews Supermen! By Greg Sadowski. Lou Anders revisits Batman. Joseph Mallozzi reviews Poe - 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow. FREE FICTION [courtesy of QuasarDragon]: @Subterranean Online: "The Ascendant" by Ted Kosmatka. @PulpGen: "The Chalice of Circe" by Willard Hawkins. ...

Steven Gould, Bad Cats, and More.
QuasarDragon — ... , "The Ascendant" by Ted Kosmatka. "One darkness moved within others. Rain gusted through the broken glass, spreading a puddle across the dusty tile floor." Online HERE [via ...

Friday Free Fiction for 24th April
Futurismic — ... Subterranean Online presents “The Ascendant” by Ted Kosmatka ...

38 Free Stories by 9 Authors
SF Signal — ... Collection, 1998) Bradley Denton: "Blackburn and the BladeText" (Lords of the Razor Anthology, 2006) Bradley Denton: "Blackburn's Lady" (World Fantasy Convention program book, 2000) Bradley Denton: Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede [PDF] (Morrow, 1991) Bradley Denton: "Sergeant Chip" (F & SF, September 2004) Steven Gould: "Bugs in the Arroyo" (Tor.com, April 2009) Ted Kosmatka: "The Ascendant" (Subterranean, Spring 2009) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller: "A Day at the ...

Subterranean Online, Spring 2009 (magazine, free)
Variety SF — ... only, 8 stories, best first). Mike Resnick's "Mother Scorpion's House of Fallen Flowers" (B); download; humor, non-genre: Lucifer Jones gets accidentally associated with a prostitution cum smuggling enterprise in Valparaiso, Chile. Ending indicates this is the last Lucifer Jones story set in South America, & that next ones will be set in Australia. Ted Kosmatka's "The Ascendant" (B); download: Hard life in a society that is essentially an anarchy. Paul McAuley's "Crimes ...