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Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell
Robert G Penner
“An excerpt from Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell by Robert G Penner The train rattled...”
Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub
Helen Simpson
“A sense of impending doom—that was how Weary had described the feeling many people got, li...”
Pig Lab
Will Mackin
“In this upside-down world there’d be a pig like Ted Waters, who, one blue winter night out...”
The Readers
Ben Lerner
“It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my prot...”
A Talent for Seeming
Jonathan Franzen
“Lust wasn’t her only sin. There was also an actor’s envy.”
The Shit
Joshua Cohen
“I had had to shit ever since I woke up. In the morning, in the evening; I’m not sure when...”
Trying to Find the Right and True Way to Talk About Death Is Funny
Caleb Crain
““Why do you think it’s funny?” I asked. “Well, funny the way music can be funny, I suppose...”
That Telltale Tingle
Andrew Norman Wilson
“Al, Dre, and I were stuck in traffic on our way to the Javits Center to meet with the cura...”
Uncanny Magazine Podcast 67B
Michael Damian Thomas
“Welcome to Episode 67B of the award-winning Uncanny Magazine Podcast! In Episode 67B you w...”
You Might Live Longer Than You Think
Brontez Purnell
“My cab driver fell asleep at the wheel and almost hit a car in the lane next to us. I coul...”
Tom Robinson
Sidik Fofana
“Just I suspected everybody in here nursin drinks. Don’t go on gulpin shit down now. I alre...”
Lovefool
Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine
“The night before my brother’s second wedding, he held a rehearsal dinner that was, per con...”