by Shaoni C. White in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-One
The stars were diamond-hard. I reached up and plucked one from the sky. It spat white-hot sparks against my fingertips. I placed it in my mouth and scraped my tongue against its burning edges—it rattled against my teeth. I tasted ozone, iron, blood. I bit down. As it broke, it thrummed both its agony and […]
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by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-One
Today is Raiders-of-the-Lost-Ark-melt-your-face-off hot. Thankfully, we have air conditioning and no shortage of things to keep us occupied inside today during one of those terribly muggy Central Illinois summer days. Though the world is theoretically opening up, we’ll be staying in for the time being. Other than the normal awful summer weather, things are improving […]
by Nisi Shawl in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-One
None of us lives in the same world. I told my niece that as she drove me home from Alki Beach last week. We could be walking down the same sidewalk, I said, and still be seeing and smelling and feeling completely different things. I pointed out the giant, 35-foot-tall flowered shovel sculpture across the […]
by Troy L. Wiggins in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-One
I think I first heard a Black person say “I’m tired of stories about slavery” in high school. Our school’s football coach, who doubled as our history teacher, had decided to show us Haile Gerima’s 1993 film Sankofa. A classmate whose name I can’t recall but whose voice I still hear to this day huffed […]
by Elsa Sjunneson in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-One
As a writer, editor, activist, and community builder, my job has many components. I write essays (like these), watch movies, do media criticism, listen to other peoples’ experiences, research, do so many things that look like work. But there is a part of my job that I often forget to look at as my work. […]
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