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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.

Welcome to Episode 68B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 68B you will hear: Introduction: Michael Damian Thomas Story: “This Story Does Not Exist” by Kylie Lee Baker, as read by Erika Ensign Poem: “The Parsley Girl” by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Michael Damian Thomas interviews Kylie Lee Baker This podcast […] The post Uncanny Magazine Podcast 68B appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.

It’s Sunday night, which means it’s our Friday night, which means the Doorkeepers go out and get absolutely blasted. It’s not as messy as it sounds. We’re polite drunks; we make a point of it actually, because we deal with our fair share of liquid-courage-gone-south on the job. And we know what we don’t want […] The post The Doorkeepers appeared first on Uncanny Magazine.