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PodCastle 838: Potemora in the Triad - PodCastle
PodCastle 838: Potemora in the Triad - PodCastle
Potemora in the Triad By Sara S. Messenger   There are always three: the father, the unfather, and the child. That’s why Vriskiaab threw my unfather off his back after she bore my baby sister, or so Vriskiaab tells me when he stops in the shade of a dune, his massive scales warm under my […]
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PodCastle 838: Potemora in the Triad - PodCastle
Strange Horizons - A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief By Christopher Blake, Art by Arina Konstantinova
Strange Horizons - A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief By Christopher Blake, Art by Arina Konstantinova
This variation on the elixir of life pairs the flavour of roasted roc with the medicinal potency of the philosopher’s stone. But buyer beware: this dish isn’t for everyone.
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Strange Horizons - A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief By Christopher Blake, Art by Arina Konstantinova
PodCastle 839: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Book of May - PodCastle
PodCastle 839: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Book of May - PodCastle
The Book of May By C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez From: Morgan W. Jamwant To: Harry Najinsky Date: January 22, 2015 12:58:59 p.m. est Subject: Death Is the Tree Eliazar, Dude. I wanna be a tree when I die. Make them put me into one of those urn-y things. The biodegradable ones with the seed […]
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PodCastle 839: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Book of May - PodCastle
PodCastle 793: Dip and Roll - PodCastle
PodCastle 793: Dip and Roll - PodCastle
Dip and Roll by Celeste Rita Baker On de largest beach of de smallest island in de Tania archipelago in de Caribbean Sea five shoreside metamorphic beachrocks sit chatting, as dey have done for de last hundred and sixty-odd years. “Hey, allyou. I leaving soon. You hear me? Dis place ain’t gon’ be de same,” […]
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PodCastle 793: Dip and Roll - PodCastle
PodCastle 798: ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Squalor and Sympathy - PodCastle
PodCastle 798: ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Squalor and Sympathy - PodCastle
Squalor and Sympathy by Matt Dovey Anna concentrated on the cold, on the freezing water around her feet and the bruising sensation in her toes. So cold. So cold. So cold, she thought. A prickling warmth like pins and needles crackled inside her feet. It coursed through her body to her clenched hands and into the lead alloy […]
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PodCastle 798: ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Squalor and Sympathy - PodCastle
The Runners - Fantasy Magazine
The Runners - Fantasy Magazine
They have never fought about it. “It’s your body,” her husband says, and means it. Only sometimes, when they’re out walking, a little girl will careen across their path roaring like a giggly tyrannosaurus, and he falls silent. “What’re you thinking about?” she asks, before she learns not to.
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The Runners - Fantasy Magazine
The Phoenix-Feathered Hat
The Phoenix-Feathered Hat
This week, Will Alexander returns us to the universe of last year’s “A Body in Motion” where we’ll visit a space station that is very alive, and that finds certain guests highly upsetting. What could possibly go wrong? (Answer: Many things, including poetry!)
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The Phoenix-Feathered Hat
The Cursed Universe Inside Your Eye - Fantasy Magazine
The Cursed Universe Inside Your Eye - Fantasy Magazine
The glass bottles are caked with so much grime you can’t see what’s in them anymore. It’s better that way because you don’t think you’d be able to do what you need to, if you could. You fish the knife out of your canvas bag, and a lighter with just enough fluid for one more flash of fire. This is your first time—but you’ve seen your mother do the same thing countless times before. Before she made her first mistake. Before you were forced to take her place.
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The Cursed Universe Inside Your Eye - Fantasy Magazine
PodCastle 773: Housing Problem - PodCastle
PodCastle 773: Housing Problem - PodCastle
Housing Problem by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner   Jacqueline said it was a canary, but I contended that there were a couple of lovebirds in the covered cage. One canary could never make that much fuss. Besides, I liked to think of crusty old Mr. Henchard keeping lovebirds; it was so completely inappropriate. But […]
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PodCastle 773: Housing Problem - PodCastle
PodCastle 803: Quest of the Starstone - PART TWO - PodCastle
PodCastle 803: Quest of the Starstone - PART TWO - PodCastle
Quest of the Starstone – Part Two by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner Yarol landed on his feet like the cat he was, gun still gripped and ready, black eyes blinking in the starry dark. Smith, hampered by the terrified Jirel, sank with nightmare ease to the ground and rebounded a little from its sponginess. […]
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PodCastle 803: Quest of the Starstone - PART TWO - PodCastle
My Dear, My Love - Fantasy Magazine
My Dear, My Love - Fantasy Magazine
It takes a Black woman to tell the truth about another Black woman, whether she likes that woman or not. If the woman in question is loved, the story reaches mythological heights, she could do no wrong, she was brown skinned and beautiful, intelligent, had all her faculties and her teeth, all the men and women of the neighborhood called her by a term of endearment, which is how Medea morphed into Ma’Dear.
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My Dear, My Love - Fantasy Magazine
PodCastle 800: D.I.Y. - PodCastle
PodCastle 800: D.I.Y. - PodCastle
D.I.Y. By John Wiswell   People ask how Noah could possibly turn down the Ozymandias Academy. All they know about him is the headlines, and they think he’s ungrateful. What you don’t get is that attending Ozymandias was Noah’s dream. Noah wanted it worse than anyone. Do you know where he was when he was […]
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PodCastle 800: D.I.Y. - PodCastle
Make Me Something That Looks the Way I Feel - Electric Literature
Make Me Something That Looks the Way I Feel - Electric Literature
“The Invention of Clouds” by Becky Mandelbaum I was ten years old when I invented clouds. I did it for my little brother, who was sick at the time and had nothing better to do than study how the light lived and died outside his bedroom window. I had invented a spider for his windowsill […]
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Make Me Something That Looks the Way I Feel - Electric Literature
Broodmare - Fantasy Magazine
Broodmare - Fantasy Magazine
I’m happy on the road. The land stretches like a languid animal, and I find tranquility in its measured length. Outside the car the earth breathes, the ground rising and sinking. Even though I am the one driving, concentrating on the road and the trucks roaring past, it’s like a meditation for me—my mind empties into the open space.
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Broodmare - Fantasy Magazine
PodCastle 845: Amma's Kitchen - PodCastle
PodCastle 845: Amma's Kitchen - PodCastle
Amma’s Kitchen by Rati Mehrotra   I can always tell what dish my customers will order. Knowing what the dead crave is my gift. Or my curse. It’s hard to know which. This girl, for instance. Brown, like me, but pale, as if the color’s been leeched out of her skin. Dark, staring eyes, weeds […]
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PodCastle 845: Amma's Kitchen - PodCastle
PodCastle 846: Against All Odds - PodCastle
PodCastle 846: Against All Odds - PodCastle
Against All Odds By Anna Mikhalevskaya Translated by Elvira Rizaeva   Time is slipping away drop by drop, along with sweat on deceptively calm faces. He runs through the shafts of stairs, through abandoned tunnels. Seeps through the ceilings into echoing hangars, stumbles upon crooked figures, shakes oilcloth curtains, rolls empty mugs, beats metal on […]
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PodCastle 846: Against All Odds - PodCastle
PodCastle 847: The Golem Lover - PodCastle
PodCastle 847: The Golem Lover - PodCastle
The Golem Lover by J.H. Siegal     I have learned of a lace that runs through my little village. Geilevska, nestled within the bosom of nearby hills, rests upon these strands, sewn around the fertile patchwork of letters learned in the men’s yeshiva, through the words traded by merchants, beneath the whispers of the […]
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PodCastle 847: The Golem Lover - PodCastle
PodCastle 844: On Snowflake-Veined Wings - PodCastle
PodCastle 844: On Snowflake-Veined Wings - PodCastle
On Snowflake-veined Wings by Chip Houser   Amalia runs her finger around the inside of her Tupperware, wiping up the last of her leftover poutine. Her fall allergies kicked in a few days ago, so she doesn’t really taste the gravy. But she’d rather finger-clean her Tupperware at her table than go wash it because […]
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PodCastle 844: On Snowflake-Veined Wings - PodCastle
PodCastle 840: The Sound of Children Screaming - PodCastle
PodCastle 840: The Sound of Children Screaming - PodCastle
The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones     THE GUN   You know the one about the Gun. The Gun goes where it wants to. On Thursday morning just after recess, the Gun will walk through the front doors of Thurman Elementary, and it won’t sign in at the front office or […]
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PodCastle 840: The Sound of Children Screaming - PodCastle
PodCastle 841: Pirates - PodCastle
PodCastle 841: Pirates - PodCastle
Pirates by E.F. Benson     For many years this project of sometime buying back the house had simmered in Peter Graham’s mind, but whenever he actually went into the idea with practical intention, stubborn reasons had presented themselves to deter him. In the first place it was very far off from his work, down […]
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PodCastle 841: Pirates - PodCastle
PodCastle 842: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Aunties Return the Ocean - PodCastle
PodCastle 842: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Aunties Return the Ocean - PodCastle
The Aunties Return the Ocean By Chris Kuriata Auntie Roberta landed badly on the roof of her escarpment house, scraping her knees across the flagstone shingles and splitting her pantyhose. Her arms were too full of black water to keep her balance so she nearly slid off the edge. She carried so much ocean she […]
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PodCastle 842: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Aunties Return the Ocean - PodCastle