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Welcome to Episode 70B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 70B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “Immigrant Girl from the End of the World” by Hannah Yang, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “Quorum” by Ceridwen Hall, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Hannah Yang This podcast was produced […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 70B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

Half of us wish the angels would stay forever.  Half want them to  leave  now.  Both factions admit that angels hold mirrors to the abyss inside us.  We too hover just above despair.  They are winged, is all, and more beautiful. Being eternal, they tell fewer stories.  We  are  narrative  little  mortals;  there  are  hours  of argument  while  angels  […] The post Quorum appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

Before the world ends, Miri’s family saves up enough money to escape to 2004. 2004: a safe haven. The year lilts off the tongue, like a promise. Miri and Lise spend their last evening together in their favorite spot, sitting on the top of the holotower at the edge of town, where they can see […] The post Immigrant Girl from the End of the World appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

I didn’t think much About trading my voice and scales away When I fell into the air and happily drowned:              As long as we’re happy I happily said, air drunk Love mad—              I continued, happily All the years after Keeping peace Between sea and land Ensuring everyone was happy Because I thought […] The post A Mermaid Looks at 40 appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

Out in the great expanse of cosmos, little seeds float. They have been drifting for billions of years in the cold darkness of space from one planet to the other, driven by the need for survival and propagation, but most of all driven by spite (they will later claim an absence of emotions in favor […] The post The Snatchers appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

Welcome to Episode 70A of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 70A you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Snatchers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, as read by Matt Peters Poem: “A Mermaid Looks at 40” by Fran Wilde, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Eugenia Triantafyllou This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 70A appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

      They will tell you lies about wolves, My darling: that you contain just two And can feed only one, and this shapes you. No. Not you. You are full of wolves, The whole pack, tumbling pups, Grizzled elders, howling, nipping— You can feed them all. Angry wolf Will hunt beside nurturing wolf— They are […] The post The Truth About Wolves appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

She just tore it right up out of the planter. It was not a violent tearing. The soil was loose enough to release the plant, some of it coming up with the roots so that as she held the green clump—some sort of hosta in bloom, with its purple trumpets waving on green stalks above […] The post The Woman Who Stole Flowers appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

Welcome to Episode 69B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 69B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas  Story: “The Woman Who Stole Flowers” by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “The Truth About Wolves” by Marissa Lingen, as read by Matt Peters Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Theodora Goss This podcast was produced […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 69B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never think about where it goes. The kind just large enough for an adult to climb into and […] The post What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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 […] The post The Mighty Impervious Woman Considers Retirement appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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 […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 69A appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

      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 […] The post The Parsley Girl appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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 […] The post This Story Does Not Exist appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.