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moth boy

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2025/06/03

& 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, […] The post moth boy appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Fantasy Musical Theatre: Sensawunda, Activate!

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2025/06/03

So I recently saw Wicked.1 And by “recently saw” I mean watched at the movie theatre, then bought the second it was available, then watched several more times. I was a huge Oz fan as a kid, and I was also and still very much am a massive musical theatre geek. So look, this movie […] The post Fantasy Musical Theatre: Sensawunda, Activate! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Disney Presents: Second Person POV Vloggers, Happy...

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/06/03

The Disney Essays, Two of Three It’s me again, the weird creative writing professor here to chat about craft while sharing my super-specific Disney hyper-fixation. When we last left one another, we’d chatted about worldbuilding through the eyes of Imagineering. Today, we’re taking on second person perspective and how you can be the main […] The post Disney Presents: Second Person POV Vloggers, Happy Haunts, and Short Stories That Use “You” appeared first on Uncanny

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Post-apocalypse Love Poem

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/06/03

I enter this forest with immolation whatever touches me become ashes or loses a layer of itself. I am not the bad guy. I just want to see the sun […] The post Post-apocalypse Love Poem appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 64B

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/06/03

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 […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 64B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/06/03

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 […] The post The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: DaVaun Sanders

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/06/03

DaVaun Sanders is an author and editor residing in Phoenix, Arizona. He currently serves as publisher and executive editor for the award-winning FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His middle grade fantasy Keynan Masters & The Peerless Magic Crew debuted in 2023, with the sequel out in 2025. His novel Minecraft: The Tournament was […] The post Interview: DaVaun Sanders appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Pale Serpent, Green Serpent

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

We play this game every time we meet, and I’ve never lost yet. Our meetings have become ritual by now: me and Tsing, once every few seasons, or years, or decades, or however long it takes for one of us to buckle from the weight of our individual lonelinesses and contact the other first. It’s […]The post Pale Serpent, Green Serpent appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Get Lost! How Whereness Deepens Fiction

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

For some time now, there’s been a great deal of talk in SF/F circles about worldbuilding. My students ask about it all the time—tricks to make sure everything fits together, to make sure all the little details and bits of history they’ve created land perfectly with readers. I agree with them that establishing the place, […] The post Get Lost! How Whereness Deepens Fiction appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

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 […] The post Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Letter to My Future Reader

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

Old English rǣdere ‘interpreter of dreams, reader’ Future reader, you first saw me before I saw you. I was reading then, but afterwards the machine projected your poetry, a digital translation of what you read and see. I liked it slow. Me: I saw this poetry first before I saw you. Poetry is a […] The post Letter to My Future Reader appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Vivisection

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

Content note: mental and physical abuse Eleanor’s heart is in the kitchen, stashed behind the spices, because Severine doesn’t cook. At first, it was hidden in the sugar canister, but then all Eleanor could think about—all day long—was tiny grains adhering to the venae cavae, the valves, the ventricles, and dissolving into glaze. So […] The post Vivisection appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine Podcast 64A

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

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. […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 64A appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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A Full Belly

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

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 […] The post A Full Belly appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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The Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

As I write this, the calendar is only days away from the one-year anniversary of the death of my amazing daughter, Caitlin. Sorrow weighs down my heart. For the rest of the world, life continues without her, though terrifying things fill the news and our social media. Terrible changes surround us, but there is also […] The post The Uncanny Valley appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Interview: Angela Liu

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

Angela Liu is a Chinese-American writer/poet who writes about intergenerational trauma and weird things. She is a two-time Nebula Award Finalist and Astounding Award nominee. Her work has also been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, and Rhysling Awards. She used to research mixed reality storytelling at Keio University in Japan and now splits her time […] The post Interview: Angela Liu appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Thank You, Patreon Supporters!

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Yänntzi, Sabrina, fidric, Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, Wichael Tellez, David, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn Bonanno, Danielle aka […] The post Thank You, Patreon Supporters! appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Barbershops of the Floating City

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

Content note: child abuse You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks up trouble when she gets too hungry. You don’t like the work, but you like all the different scissors. […] The post Barbershops of the Floating City appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Doing the Math

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/06

Content note: miscarriage I leave things behind. My favorite peacoat in a hotel closet, the Süskind novel Perfume in a bathroom stall at Heathrow, my keys in the refrigerator, and so on. “I leave things” sounds purposeful—as though my coat were a clue, a breadcrumb, deliberately planted for a stranger to stumble upon. This […] The post Doing the Math appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

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Uncanny Magazine, Michael Damian Thomas & Lynne M....

Uncanny Magazine ·

2025/05/02

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! “A Stranger Knocks” by Tananarive Due is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” by Angela Liu is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Best Novelette Locus Award finalist, “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine is a Best Short Story Locus Award finalist, and “Stitched […]The post Uncanny Magazine, Michael Damian Thomas & Lynne M. Thomas, and Five Uncanny Stories

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