When we’re little, we are told that imagination has no bounds, that we are unlimited in what we can come up with. Every television show relies upon the suspension of disbelief that children are gifted with, and that suspension of disbelief is eroded or beaten out of us as we age. Every children’s book allows […]
Hugo the Cat is poised at the window, ready to fight the birds, squirrels, and bunnies. Green tulip tips are escaping from the earth. Tree pollen confuses our sinuses into filling up in the most uncomfortable ways. Three days ago, it was 17 degrees out. Ah, it’s SPRING in Illinois! A year ago, the Thomases […]
The snow swirls outside of Caitlin’s Lurie Children’s Hospital window. From 20 floors up, we watch cars slip and slide, thankful we’re not traveling home in dangerous weather while also wanting to be anywhere but here. Caitlin is back in the hospital tonight after a mostly healthy 2020. The current kidney stone surgery didn’t go […]
I viscerally remember the hardback copy of My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell that I grew up with. It had one of those plastic covers that curls at the edges, to protect the actual vintage dustjacket from getting destroyed. I was a child who was careful with her books, I prized them. This […]
Welcome to the first Uncanny Magazine issue of 2021. We write this as we start the first holiday season in our new home. Caitlin is currently binging The Vampire Diaries, as Hugo the Cat naps near her on his blanket, and Lynne consumes all of the Christmas romances her eReader can provide. We made it […]
Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Year 7! We hope that you will enjoy all that we have planned for the next six issues. We’re curating another year of art and beauty. Another year of provocative pieces that will make you think and feel. We are so excited to share all of these stories, poems, essays, interviews, […]
There are people who want to convince you that science fiction, as a genre, is apolitical. That fantasy is, too. That because these stories don’t take place right now and right here that we shouldn’t put our nasty, dirty, filthy politics into the nice stories that give readers a chance at escape. “Don’t put politics […]
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 […]