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PseudoPod 661: The Happiest Place is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler A certain mouse-themed theme park has always been an object of fascination for me, and the more I read about it, the more strange an imitation of reality it appears to be. The lengths that employees are required to go to create a seamless fantasy experience for their guests seems altogether dystopian, and it didn’t…

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PseudoPod 660: Tiny Teeth is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “This story was inspired by and is dedicated to all the people around the world who have been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, especially those who didn’t survive it.” Content Warnings: Spoiler fantasies of self harm, politics (abortion) [collapse] I risk walking to the doctor’s…

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“Lord Beden’s Motor” first appeared in The Strand Magazine in December 1901. Preorder Monster She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson. Then listen to them at the Know Fear Cast. A hard man was Ralph Strang, seventh Earl of Beden, seventy years of age on his last birthday, but still upright as a dart, with hair white as…

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“I Hate All That Is Mine” originally appeared in the anthology, Lost Films, published by Perpetual Motion Machine Spoiler Self harm, strong sexual themes [collapse] Title card music is “Coagula” by permission of Zeal & Ardor. We learned of this band when one of their albums appeared as a chapter heading for We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix. Click through for our…

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“House Party Blues” originally appeared in Black Static #39 (TTAPress) 2014 “I used to live next door to a house rented out to college students, and while they were actually mostly very nice, the near-nightly, all-summer-long, ’til 3am outdoor bonfire & bongo parties when I had infant twins trying to sleep definitely was not my favorite thing about being neighbors. This story was written one…

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PseudoPod 655: Black Matter is a PseudoPod original. “I’m an aviation nerd with trainwreck syndrome, so air crash investigation is a subject dear to my heart. Having watched documentaries on (and read NTSB reports about) ever so many crashes, I began to wonder what it might be like if the investigators had one last secret fall-back option when no clear cause for an accident could be found…

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PseudoPod 654: Flash on the Borderlands XLVIII: Parts & Maintenance is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler body horror, sexual abuse, predation, exploitation [collapse] “A Real Death” is a PseudoPod Original “Kintsugi” is a PseudoPod Original — Kintsugi: “I wrote the story for a contest on Codex Writers forum. So much fun to join with more than a hundred…

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“Spurs” was first published in Munsey’s Magazine in February 1923. Content warning: Spoiler Bigotry, ableism, cruelty [collapse] Jacques Courbé was a romanticist. He measured only twenty-eight inches from the soles of his diminutive feet to the crown of his head; but there were times, as he rode into the arena on his gallant charger, St. Eustache…

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‘He Dies Where I Die’ was first published in The Dark in 2018. Content warning: Spoiler Racism, body horror [collapse] Dion spun back to the oval of daylight and said a prayer. He didn’t pray to Jesus or Qamata. He prayed to his father, ten years lost and dead in the mines. Watch over me. Lead me to gold and back to the light. He sniffed his last lungful of…

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