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                                     Hope lost each and every feather just the other day. Some had been stolen, ripped from her thin dark form by desperate hands and claws. Others had been misplaced, here and there: Hope never had time to […]

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1. In the summer the trees on both sides of the demarcation line between the godless north and the godlands cast sharp shadows across the dry soil, and though it is said that flowers bloom in a greater profusion in the south and their scent more pleasing, there isn’t, in truth, much of a difference […]

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Welcome to Episode 73A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 73A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Godless” by Lavie Tidhar, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Fallen Feathers” by Mari Ness, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Lavie Tidhar This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and Steven […]

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Welcome to Episode 72B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 72B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “Children of Calliope” by Seanan McGuire, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Butterfly Effect” by Angela Liu, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Seanan McGuire This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and […]

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  I always liked this idea: how we’d walk to the end of the subway tunnel and there’d be a door where everyone was waiting on the other side with all the things we’d ever lost.   I always liked how to die means to never lose anything again. I want to remember the last […]

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By the early days of the twenty-first century, advocates of book bans had managed, however accidentally, to elevate their hobby to the level of near-religion, and with it created a class of concepts that could only be called into existence if a person read them in a book. By controlling what children could read outside […]

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Nobody dances the way he does, and he knows it, and everyone can tell. The beat is something ancient and otherworldly, or that’s what it feels like; it wakes something inside him, half-remembered, half-submerged like the marble arm of a maiden or a piece of amphora lying for millennia at the bottom of the sea. […]

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I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t know how to read. My earliest memory is from around 1975 or so, and I am sitting with my grandmother in the farmhouse I loved. Together, we are reading a book called Willie and the Whale. It’s a little thing, just about four inches, […]

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  She carries jasmine in her hair, the empire in her hands. Even now she folds up her youth, until the magnolias stop bleeding in the imperial gardens. Death follows in its place, a loyal hound. When famine comes, Chang’an is feverish with desire, gutted by thirst. She eats pomegranates then, an autumn craving she […]

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Welcome to Episode 72A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 72A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “Horse Boy” by Natalia Theodoridou, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Huangdi” by Kailee Pedersen, as read by Erika Ensign Essay: “Being a Brief History of It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton” by Wil Wheaton, as read by Wil Wheaton This podcast […]

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