Most mornings, the woman sits in her garden. Most mornings, I sit on my roof. In this way, looking down over the tall stone walls of her courtyard, I can see her grey head bent over her grey hands. She’s a wealthy woman—you can tell from her flowers alone, they’re so healthy, their petals lush […]

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Welcome to Episode 65B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 65B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Garden” by Emma Törzs, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Wishbone” by Prosper Ìféányí, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Emma Törzs This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky […]

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We made do with what we had on the land that was given to us. The land, gorged with sand & dusty murals. How people lived was quite simple. Holograms sold things at the market. Money was no longer the exchange unit of commodities as the crude method of trade by barter was refined. In […]

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The crystal cliff loomed over Justin. It glinted like a giant chunk of clear, flawless diamond under the harsh winter sun. An ever-shifting rock field lay behind him. Every few seconds, except on the trail he had just blazed, dust coalesced into rock, and boulders disintegrated into dust. Through the cliff, Justin saw the static […]

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Welcome to Episode 65A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 65A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Diner at the Intersection of Duty and Despair” by John Chu, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Soft, Your Grief, and Leporine” by Lora Gray, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael Damian Thomas […]

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I. How gruesome that rabbit’s foot is, tucked into your launch suit’s pocket, your luck tethered to a clutch of severed bones and genetically altered fur.   Real rabbits, the ship’s computer insists, did not glow in the dark.   I asked you once, stars bounding behind us- jackrabbit quick that leap from Moon to […]

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& a boy is on a rooftop, dropping a flower for his friend who jumped off a building. some say he descended, like rain. some say he plummeted like an arrow shot from heaven. all in all, no one ever thought: what if he flew downwards expecting to be caught? or for a brief moment, […]

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Welcome to Episode 6B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 64B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers” by Aliette de Bodard, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “moth boy” by Praise Osawaru, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Aliette de Bodard This […]

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Content note: torture   Imawane has lost track of time, hanging in the chains—everything contracting to the pain in her legs, the pull of the chains on her wrists, the broken ribs, the breath that rattles in her chest, the encroaching darkness that hovers at the edge of her field of vision but refuses to […]

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Kestrel House  There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement park thirty-five miles northeast of Antiphony. The historic event was observed from a safe distance by a team of army […]

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