by Leah Cypess in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Four
They told us we were princesses, and we believed them. At least, I believed them. I think most of the others did, too. Except Kenna, perhaps; she had her suspicions. But Kenna was suspicious of everything, always. It made her tiring to talk to. To be fair, we did live in a castle. And we […]
by Christopher Caldwell in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Four
On a Thursday night in Harvestmonth, when the moon rises round and bronze as a new betrothal promise watch, is the warlike thrice-veiled Mother of Mákhesthaines, crowned in her black silk mantles embroidered with skulls, permitted across the Holy Square and into the Grand Cathedral of Saint Ignace Battiste. All other times is she anathema. […]
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by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Four
Welcome to the first Uncanny Magazine issue of 2022! It’s a blustery day in Central Illinois. Lynne is having Zoom meetings in the Doctor Who room, Caitlin is listening to her audio book, and Hugo the Cat is buried in a comforter and hoping for a mild winter. It’s hard to believe that as we write this, […]
by Meg Elison in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Four
“I am not an intellectual, I write with my body.” —Clarice Lispector In all the fiction and nonfiction that I read, I am searching for the body. In fiction, I want to know how a character feels; how they churn and bleed, how they laugh from deep in the belly or cry their crocodile […]
by Alex Jennings in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Four
One thing I’ve learned over the years is the importance of judging works for what they are rather than what they aren’t. As a writer, it can be tempting to break a work open, re-contextualize it, and imagine it as something more fulfilling for myself than what it really was. Midnight Mass carried me down […]
by Lincoln Michel in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Four
Cyberpunk is dead. It’s been 37 years since Neuromancer was published, making the genre officially a geriatric millennial. Its aesthetics are used up. Its critique tired. Its literary power petering out like a fritzing cybernetic arm tossed in the automated dumpster beneath a blinking neon hologram. At least that’s what people say. But I’d like […]
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