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PseudoPod 641: ARTEMIS RISING 5: A Song for Wounded Mouths is a PseudoPod original. “I wanted to write a story about body glitter, and instead wrote something about teeth.” It was Brandon who found the teeth. He was the one who picked up the small Mason jar, imagining it to be the perfect thing for B roll, the kind of homespun charm we were hoping to emulate for the video we were…

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PseudoPod 640: ARTEMIS RISING 5: What Throat is a PseudoPod original. It was embarrassingly easy to get lost. Even for someone like Jo, who was familiar with hiking and knew better than to make the mistakes she made. She’d always heard it was easier than you think; now she finally believed it. A bit of distraction. Forging ahead when something niggled in the back of her head that maybe…

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“Of All the Things the Girls Had Ever Said” was previously available on Amazon Content warning: Spoiler Kidnapping, confinement, predation [collapse] “This is one of the rare stories I wrote longhand in a fever pitch during a late night ferry crossing between the mainland and Vancouver Island. I don’t tend to write when inspired — I’m more of a work horse.

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“A Strange Heart, Set In Feldspar” was first published in the anthology Abandoned Places (Shohola Press), published in March 2018 “I go back to visit Sweden pretty much every summer, staying in my parents’ summer house in the northern part of the country. Mining, and specifically mining for gold and copper, really shaped the economy in that part of the country, and this story was partly…

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“White Noise” was previously published in the April 2018 issue of Anathema: Spec from the Margins “Despite its speculative content, I wrote this story to illustrate the complexities of the immigrant experience. In these current political climes, it’s important to recognize how many people struggle to be heard and understood in more ways than one. My family and I are first-generation…

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“Hag Ride” was originally published in Steamy Screams from Blood Bound Books (2011), then in the author’s collection Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror (2015) Content warning: Spoiler Body horror, sexual violence [collapse] Frieda stood in the kitchen’s dull light with a chopping knife clutched in one hand. The dinner on the table lay untouched…

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PseudoPod 635: Last Week I Was Esther is a PseudoPod original. Last week, I was Esther. I remember her plump face, pearl earrings, and huge handbag, stuffed with treats for her grandchildren—as stuffed as she was inside, with sweetmeats and perfumed memories of the postwar years. I’ve tended to pursue older people for a while, with their minds full of experiences. Dementia patients don’…

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PseudoPod 634: Flash On The Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous is a PseudoPod original. “Ecdysis” was previously published at Kaleidotrope (Spring 2016) “Viens Jouer Avec Moi” and “End of the Line” are Pseudopod originals. Music credits for “Viens Jouer Avec Moi”: Spoiler Minor Key Music Box – Freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/Pogotron/sounds/60832/

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