If you’d told me exactly one year ago that I would be sitting in a house in Seattle, WA with my guide dog in his bed, planning to see my gentleman caller for a dram of scotch in the evening…I would have laughed. That would have felt impossible. After all, I was married. I owned […]
We did it. This is the final issue of Uncanny Magazine Year 6. As this is the sixth time we’ve managed to complete an entire year of issues, that might not seem like a huge deal. The first two issues, however, were not created in our home. Thanks to the magic of Wi-Fi, tablets, and […]
As we write this, our daughter Caitlin has been home from the hospital for six months and remains healthy in our new house. We’re extremely grateful, but the world is otherwise terrifying right now. The COVID-19 pandemic continues with no end in sight. Horrible regimes around the world continue policies that harm people in so […]
I have been thinking a lot about the genres that reinforce white supremacy this month. Over the last 15 days, Seattle experienced police violence that made our streets tantamount to a war zone. While I watched on a live stream, fifteen minutes’ walk from my home, the police set off hundreds of flash bangs. They […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Places are imbued with genre. The ways in which we experience space, time, geography, and adventure are influenced by what media we read and consume. For the next year at Uncanny I’ll be doing meditations on place and genre. Sometimes it will be about real places, sometimes about the places we imagine and how we […]
We didn’t expect to be writing this editorial at home. We really thought this would be composed at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. As many of you know, our daughter, Caitlin, has been very ill over the last two months. She was hospitalized for 34 out of 38 total days in that period with a […]