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Build the Door, Hold the Door: Protecting the Citadel of Diverse Speculative Fiction–Nonfiction Introduction

I’m honored to have been your nonfiction editor for Disabled People Destroy Fantasy. Ridiculously honored. Honored and gobsmacked. Honor-smacked. The Destroy series has come to mean something deeply important and deeply specific to our community of storytellers and story-appreciators. For many of us, the success of Destroy represents a kind of fulcrum. It’s the smash […]

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Poetry Introduction

We begin with an injunction, an order: “Resist / feeding serpents your stories.” Serpents expect the performative, we are warned; they prize shiny illusions over truth. But we are survivors, and we have not survived by accepting limits. So, sly, we speak aslant. We speak of whales and horses. We seduce would-be censors with “world-tree […]

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Interview: Lane Waldman

Lane Waldman grew up in Rochester, NY and currently lives in Philadelphia, PA. They have a Bachelor’s from Connecticut College, and they previously worked as a First Reader for Strange Horizons. Their stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Capricious, Betwixt, and the anthology Tales from the Lake Vol. 5. Uncanny Magazine: “Tower” hits that sweet fantasy spot […]

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