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The Magical Sow - Fantasy Magazine
Baba Nowruz Gives His Wife a Flower Only Once a Year - Fantasy Magazine
PodCastle 739: 'Til Death - PodCastle
‘Til Death by C. J. Lavigne My dear Clarinda, They tell me that when you heard of my wedding, you shattered a goblet, fell to the floor in a swooning fit, and did not arise for three days. I hear that the entirety of the manor was wreathed in black. Really, darling, it seems […]
PodCastle 738: The Bones Beneath - PodCastle
The Bones Beneath by Vanessa Fogg Four years ago, the bones began pushing up from the earth. Fay is now seventeen, and she feels the bones’ movements more strongly each year. It’s the end of winter, but not yet the beginning of spring. Snowmelt has turned the fields to mud, and the grass is […]
PodCastle 547: Every House, a Home - PodCastle
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PodCastle 737: The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge - PodCastl
The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge by Renan Bernardo Have you seen pictures of the unfinished Presidente Costa e Silva Bridge, with its columns telling stories of falls and drownings like tombstones for the never found and the cemented alive? I saw many in 1972, soon after Papai vanished during the bridge’s […]
PodCastle 736: The Gorgon's Glass - PodCastle
The Gorgon’s Glass by M.E. Bronstein There are people who try to blame Oken’s unhappy demise on the Gorgon, but if you read Oken’s notebooks carefully (and it’s my job to read his notebooks carefully), you know that he was already dying when he first met her. In fact, that is why he sought […]
PodCastle 735: The Artists' Colony - PodCastle
The Artists’ Colony Patrick Freyne Dear ______, I think you would love it here. It’s so peaceful and you were always saying, back in the city, that we needed to get away. So let me describe what I can see from my writing desk. Outside my window I can see a silver lake which […]
PodCastle 734: An Incomplete Account of the Case of the Bird-Talker of Yaro
An Incomplete Account of the Case of the Bird-Talker of Yaros by Eleanna Castroianni PANAYOTIS M., interviewed by Eleni Haji, November 1975 When I first saw her, she was covered in wings. Sea birds flocked to her as if she was honey and they were the bees. Watching from the men’s prison, we […]
PodCastle 733: Flash Fiction Extravaganza - Rough Patches - PodCastle
Water We Made to Breathe By Marisca Pichette When we were fourteen we went looking for the ocean at the heart of the woods. I remember the smell: earth and algae and damp, air thick as water. Our sweat mixing with the summer sun, our clothes in a pile on the shore. Max jumped in, […]
PodCastle 732: Fire in His Eyes, Blood on His Teeth - PodCastle
Fire In His Eyes, Blood On His Teeth By R.S.A. Garcia He comes to me with fire in his eyes and blood on his teeth. Sometimes the blood is his enemies’. Sometimes it’s mine. Eventually, it’s mine. Always. He is different today, striding across the sandy soil toward my home with scuffed, much-mended boots. […]
Practical Childcare Considerations for Knights Errant - Fantasy Magazine
Alice is Much Farther Than She Appears - Fantasy Magazine
PodCastle 731: The Travel Guide to the Dimension of Lost Things - PodCastle
The Travel Guide to the Dimension of Lost Things By Effie Seiberg Have you ever felt so tired that you just don’t feel anymore? Where you wake up, burrowed under the covers with a shaft of light somehow piercing through them and right into your brain, and realize that here comes one more day […]
PodCastle 730: The Augur and the Girl Left At His Door - PodCastle
The Augur and the Girl Left at His Door by Greta Hayer The augur looked at the bridegroom’s back and sighed. He bent close to the bridegroom’s skin, examined every bump and line in his flesh. Most apparent were the red lines, claw marks from fingernails. A less experienced fortune teller would have seen those […]
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PodCastle 729: Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse - PodCastle
Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse by M. L. Krishnan To Kalavati, it was well known that if one reached marriageable age, parents and aunties and cousins thrice-removed would clump themselves into anthills of worry. Missiles of relationship managers and matrimonial websites would then be launched to nab a match. It would be a process of […]
PodCastle 729: Bride Knife Flaming Horse
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