by L. Tu in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Three
(Content note: mentions of genocide) “Baobao!” The Protector-General’s fat little dog disappears around the corner. Aida, cursing, digs her heels into the ground and runs. Baobao likes to chase after anything that moves. Usually Aida indulges him—it’s fun to see Baobao’s fat bum wiggle as he hops after squirrels he’ll never catch—but the sun […]
by Nicole Kornher-Stace in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Three
86. This time you tell yourself you’ll stay put like you were told to. Sit with the engine idling and bide your fucking time. You won’t go running in there after them. Not this time. You know by now that you can’t stop them anyway. That all it’s going to gain you is a stitch […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Three
Urbana is yo-yoing between normal winter and the new creepy warmth of climate change. Caitlin remains home, healthy (barring a cold), and back to school, but the Uncanny Thomases remain fairly stressed out as we recover from the medical nightmares, search for a new house, and get caught up in all of the national and […]
by Elsa Sjunneson in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Three
Hi, you. We started this relationship on the day I was born. I was given the birthright of your skyscrapers, your bridges, your busy streets and your sleepless nights. We left you behind when I was very small, but the pull of the City that Never Sleeps just kept dragging me back, until I was […]
by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Three
Buffy the Vampire Slayer wrote the first pages of my adult personality. When I was in high school, my older sister passed down the DVDs as though they were life’s handbooks. I was hooked. The show’s quick and zany sense of humor got me, Buffy’s angst mirrored my own, and the three teenage characters were […]
by John Wiswell in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Three
Professor X is one of the most famous disabled characters. Since his debut in 1963, he’s been known as the formidable mentor who turned his mansion into a safe space and school for marginalized people. Unlike superhero billionaires Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne, Xavier used his fortune to shelter and organize other heroes who inevitably […]
