Welcome to Episode 64A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 64A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War” by Caroline M. Yoachim, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “A Full Belly” by Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Caroline M. […]

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Last night it rained peas. From the pockets of the princess’s gown they scattered across the city streets, leaving a trail like Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumbs. Now hungry children gather up the dried green peas and dream of a real dinner. They tell the story of a girl who won a royal wedding by sleeping […]

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                 At an open bar in Sarkin Pawa the night was flourishing to Burna Boy’s las las. Our bodies were getting drowned in our beers; the bandits have invaded and conquered Sharp-Kona. Some voice drunken in the music tells us to run. something hit a man dancing to the music; […]

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It’s a game, Sage tells Brianna, the island with the animals. She is the third of Brianna’s clients to mention it, but the first to explain. You played as this cosmetic vivisectionist at an island resort. You assisted the resident plastic surgeon. “You get him whatever he needs, dyes and patterns and skin and stuff,” […]

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Welcome to Episode 63B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 63B you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Island with the Animals” by Stephanie Malia Morris, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “Time loop for the day I die.” by Abdulrazaq Salihu, as read by Matt Peters Interview: […]

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The city is a wild animal. I am its broken rib. The city is a fallen star woven in the belly of rust. I try to create something out of dust when the words trickle in: What is a dream: What is in a dream: What are dreams made of? We are tenderness woven into […]

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Welcome to Episode 63A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 63A you will hear: Introduction: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills, as read by Erika Ensign Story: “Butterfly Pavilion” by G. Willow Wilson, as read by Erika […]

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There are so many: yellow and silver and black, morphos whose wings are a demure moth-brown on one side and iridescent blue on the other, like princesses in disguise. The children follow them around the pavilion on their little tottering feet. “Too hot,” we say to one another at intervals throughout the day, looking up […]

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1. There is a future in which a hellgate opens off the coast of California. It happens at midnight on the first day of the new year, which is sooner than anyone expected. The waters rise and we are forced to abandon our home, but one of the neighbors has a spare raft we can […]

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Jero cleared his throat before he continued speaking into the phone. “Up to this moment it could not positively have been asserted that the man, in spite of his tantalizing declaration, was really in earnest. The spectators had, indeed, taken the proceedings throughout as a piece of mirthful irony carried to extremes; and had assumed […]

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