by Sonya Taaffe in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Four
She held her breath as the demon struck the match, but nothing stranger than the smell of sulfur rose to meet her; it lit the candles like anyone, left to right, and placed the shammes in the center of the small brass menorah when it was done. They glowed quietly and a little ironically on […]
by Suzanne Walker in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Four
We chased the sirens for the seaspray, for the slick tang of salt on our tongues when we stood at the prow of the ship. We each christened her a different name, and the carving on the hull twisted and reshaped depending on who took the helm. Anna for young Rose; Hera when Molly gripped […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Four
This…fucking…year. As we write this, the Thomas family should be in celebratory mode. Caitlin has been out of the hospital for three months and has remained healthy so far. We just purchased a new home in Champaign—a dream house that is super accessible for Caitlin, which, by the time you read this, we will have […]
by Elsa Sjunneson in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Four
I moved to Seattle, WA on February 9th of 2020. Within 3 weeks the COVID-19 virus had struck the hometown to which I had repatriated. The whole point of moving home had been to stop isolating myself, to move from the suburbs of NJ where I was living in a sort of social quarantine, to […]
by Ada Palmer in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Four
I want to talk about genre fiction’s power to battle censorship and misinformation. I am, in my capacity as a historian, in the middle of a multi-year project on the history of censorship1, and in my capacity as a genre fiction reader and writer I keep coming back to two observations about genre fiction and […]
by Khairani Barokka in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Four
Seven Fridays ago, the authorities in Indonesia cancelled public religious gatherings, and a state of emergency was declared in my hometown of Jakarta. All due to COVID-19. The mosques, including Jakarta’s giant Masjid Istiqlal, which can house 200,000, are now empty in lieu of five prayers a day. The churches and temples have exhaled people, […]
