In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Fargo Tbakhi's "Balfour in the Desert," narrated by the author.

You can read the full story and learn more about Fargo here.

Content warnings for this story include:

Animal cruelty/death

Blood

Body transformation

Death/dying

Drug use

Murder

Self-harming behaviors

Spiders/insects

Suicide

Violence/combat

Xenophobia

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Karim Kattan's "Native Country", narrated by Strange Horizons' Senior Fiction Editor Rasha Abdulhadi.

You can read the full story and learn more about Karim here.

Content warnings for this story include:

Disregard for personal autonomy

Blood

Child abuse

Death/dying

Murder

Scars/scarification

Suicide

Violence/combat

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Arden Eli Hill's “None of the Star Trek Ships are Named After confederate Generals,” with a reading by the poet. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Arden here.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents KS Shere's "The Golden Carrot". 

You can find the text of the story, along with its content warnings, here.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Courtney Floyd presents E. A. Xiong's "Si Shou." You can read the full story and learn more E. A. Xiong here. 

Content warnings for this episode include:

Blood

Body transformation

Death/dying

Mental health issues

Sex

Suicide

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Cecilia R.'s “Bat Mitzvah” with a reading by the poet. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Cecilia here.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Patty Nash's “I was in a Constellation” with a reading by the poet. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Patty here.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Courtney Floyd presents Noel Cheruto's "We Broke Nairobi." .You can read the full story and learn more about Noel here.

Content warnings for this episode include:

Disregard for personal autonomy

Blood

Death/dying

Drug use

Murder

Sexual assault

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Courtney Floyd presents Abdulla Moaswes's "A Day in the Life of Anmar 20X1," narrated by the author.You can read the full story and learn more about Abdulla here.

Content warnings for this episode include:

Imperialism

Settler colonialism

Violence/combat

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Morgan L. Ventura's “Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls,” with a reading by the poet. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Morgan here.