In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Paris Green's "Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me".

Part of our Trans special issue.

You can read the full story, and find out more about Paris, here.

Content warnings for this story include:

Body transformation

Mental health issues

Sex

Spiders/insects

Suicide

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Courtney Floyd presents "The Chicken House" by Jenny Fried. 

The full text of this story can be found here.

Content warnings for this episode include:

Animal cruelty/death

Blood

Death/dying

Needles

Scars/scarification

Self-harming behaviors

Violence/combat

In this episode of the Strange Horizons fiction podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Wadih El Haddad's "ارادات", or "Wills" in Arabic, narrated by the author.

You can read the story in Arabic, and find out out more about Wadih, here.

Content warnings for this story include:

Violence/combat

In this episode of the Strange Horizons fiction podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Wadih El Haddad's "Wills", narrated by the author.

You can read the full story and find out more about Wadih here.

Content warnings for this story include:

Violence/combat

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents David Simmons's “The Bunny Man,” with a reading by the poet. You can read the full text of the poem and more about David here.

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