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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, […]
“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 […]
We’re writing this during a stormy Central Illinois day when we always keep an ear out for a tornado siren. (Thankfully, our house has a Cold War bomb shelter, though wrangling Caitlin and Hugo the Cat downstairs into it is always an adventure.) Our neighborhood is filled with Halloween decorations, and we’re hoping the Great […]
I have been working in genre magazines since roughly 2014. It’s been one hell of a run, and I’m done now. This is my last issue at Uncanny Magazine, and it feels a bit like the end of an era. I’m not going to be editing short fiction, or short non-fic- tion, anymore. I’ll be […]
Outside is moist. Miserable and moist. The Uncanny Thomases love many things about Central Illinois, but humid August with its heat and storms is not one of them. As we huddle in the A/C with Hugo the Cat, the world continues to be frightening. The pandemic rages on. Global news is discouraging. We have plans, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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