after Gary Jackson 1 You’ve seen the video. Everyone has. The nanorockets swarm in golden hour sun, descend like a conspiracy of shrikes towards the fallout shelter, its vault-door sundered. I hold the gap, my silver costume shining until millions of explosions bloom red & orange against my body. When the smoke clears I stand […]

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Welcome to Episode 69A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 69A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom” by Angela Liu, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “The Mighty Impervious Woman Considers Retirement” by Izzy Wasserstein, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael […]

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      I. The parsley girl is trickier than you think. Wouldn’t you be, if your own mother sold you to a witch for a bundle of parsley? Winter had come and she was craving anything green, would have eaten grass if a blade had been poking through the snow. The witch did not particularly want […]

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Stories begin as late as possible. That is what Ayako knows because that is what the Creator has taught her. Readers don’t want pages of exposition. They want to chase after a train as it pulls out of the station. This is one of many rules the Creator has programmed into her, and Ayako never […]

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Welcome to Episode 68B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 68B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “This Story Does Not Exist” by Kylie Lee Baker, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “The Parsley Girl” by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Kylie Lee Baker This podcast […]

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It’s Sunday night, which means it’s our Friday night, which means the Doorkeepers go out and get absolutely blasted. It’s not as messy as it sounds. We’re polite drunks; we make a point of it actually, because we deal with our fair share of liquid-courage-gone-south on the job. And we know what we don’t want […]

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Welcome to Episode 68A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 68A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Doorkeepers” by A. T. Greenblatt, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “No Kings / No Soldiers” by A.M. Tuomala, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews A. T. Greenblatt This podcast was […]

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      I am beating your swords into ploughshares I am un sowing every dragon’s tooth I am floating cedars back up the Euphrates I am putting the Bull of Heaven to pasture I am unwinding the noose of borders I am walking you down from the gallows I am holding your hand I am holding […]

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Welcome to Episode 67B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 67B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Teleporting Disaster Fairy” by Rati Mehrotra, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “My Duende: in the Wall and in the Mirror” by Angel Leal, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Rati Mehrotra […]

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i was smaller than a candle. i had no bold fire to scare away the little man whose mouth was made of shadow, whose old body lived behind my bedroom wall.my duende made sure i was clean.   like an obsessed mother, he used to reach out of the wall & cut my toenails. watch […]

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