by Emily Y. Teng in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Nine
Listen. There’s a rite of passage all Yineng girls go through when it’s time for us to become women. Here’s how it goes. On the first full moon after you turn fourteen, you will need to go to the nearest river. For me, it was the stream that cuts through the ditch behind Aldean Textiles, […]
by Matthew Olivas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Nine
Tonalli: Soul of development, reason, warmth; inhabits the skull. To cross the threshold that splits the living world and enter the City of the Dead, we must first pay the Tlamatini. Nine pesos wrapped gently in a bundle of maize husks is what I hand him. The pesos are the real kind, stamped in […]
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by Izzy Wasserstein in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Nine
I. A Note About Audience I think often about Charlie Jane Anders’s magnificent and heartbreaking story “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue.” As I read it, one of the story’s goals is to help cis people (that is, people whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth) understand something essential about trans […]
by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Nine
We’re writing this editorial in room 2139 at Lurie Children’s hospital. This is day 50 of our daughter Caitlin’s current hospitalization (day 60 since July 27). She was supposed to be discharged last week. It didn’t happen. Yet another major and heartbreaking setback occurred about an hour before we were supposed to get on the […]
by Meg Elison in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Nine
Short stories are a lot like sex. There are only so many variations of what you can do, writer tops reader, reader comes hungry to bottom. But every angle seems inventive, every person brings their own art to both writing and reading that it feels new every time. We can write in teams and read […]
by Jennifer Marie Brissett in Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Nine
There are a lot of speculative films out there so that it’s sometimes easy for quieter efforts to be overlooked in the boom of the blockbusters. Even sadder, some films become lost, forgotten, misunderstood, and/or slammed by bad reviews for all kinds of unseemly reasons. In the spirit of celebrating the subtler efforts in speculative […]
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