Grounding your weird fiction with a throughline that cuts right through all the horror to the humanity at all has me crying while reading this week's award-nominated novelette.

This week's story: Uncertain Sons, by Thomas Ha. Published in Uncertain Sons and Other Stories.

• Nebula Award Nominee (novelette)
• Philip K. Dick Award Nominee
• British Science Fiction Association Awards Nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards Nominee in Long Fiction (for title novelette)
• Locus Recommended Reading List
• New York Public Library 'Best of 2025'

This week's snack: Bread Machine Coffee Cake

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Next Week's Story: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

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