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Telling Stories of Ghosts
A hawk can scissor off the top of a squirrel’s skull as neatly as you or I might snip open an Otter Pop. The bird is surprisingly tidy about the entire process of eating a squirrel, although they feel no qualms about leaving the bits they don’t like behind in your yard—as I learned when I caught my dog nibbling the squirrel’s first finger-joint, its umber-tinted claw nearly as long as my dog’s entire paw.
Interview with Author Annie Neugebauer
The most dangerous creature in the universe is a mother who is battling for her baby’s survival. Annie Neugebauer’s story “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run” features two mother and child relationships, and both mothers will stop at nothing to ensure their babies are able to eat and survive. The first mother we meet, Bethesda, undertakes a dangerous journey to ensure her baby daughter is able to breastfeed. In the world of this story, breastfeeding is common.
Las Girlfriends Guide to Subversive Eating
Interview with Author Annie Neugebauer by Andrea Johnson | Apr 8, 2021 The most dangerous creature in the universe is a mother who is battling for her baby’s survival. Annie Neugebauer’s... read more She Searches for God in the Storm Within by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali | Apr 6, 2021 When I arrived at my grandmother’s, in the stillness of predawn, like some restless cat stalking, she was waiting for...
Write on, Right on.
WHY I WROTE AFRO PUFFS: Forgive me for this commercial but… …among the millions who’ve Finished The Thing Despite Nonstop Fuckery, I’m happy to stand atop AFRO PUFFS ARE THE ANTENNAE OF THE UNIVERSE as number one-million and one.
My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup - June 2020
From the author: 16 (or more) fantastic stories I read in June. An audio version is available for this installment.
The Air in My House Tastes Like Sugar
“The air in my house tastes like sugar and the floors are sticky,” said Amnandi Khumalo. “Amnandi…” “Unina, you say I should be honest!” She wanted to cry, for she was lonely, yet she refused to allow a single tear to form, no matter how painful a witch’s sharp recollection made things. “What did they do after you told them?” “They ran! That stupid rumor made them run.
19 Movies That’ll Make You Think About Life, Love, Reality, And What It Means To Be Human
There’s something about movies that fascinates us, likely because we’re so addicted to dreams we need them even awake. Whether laughing, crying, thinking, or longing, we need these special lenses to show our individual places within the world, to shape, guide, and make us — for a couple hours — want to be more than who we are. Let’s look at a few movies that do precisely that so well, they transcend their medium. LIFE Life perplexes. Life mystifies.
Transformed: A Primer on Minister Faust
The Coyote Kings, Book One: Space-Age Bachelor Pad (Narmer’s Palette, February 2013) In a career that has seen the author tackle fan boy culture (both the good and the bad of it), superhero deconstruction, immigration & enculturation, and gritty space opera that fixes what George Lucas tried to do with the Wars prequels, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (since re-released as The Coyote Kings, Book 1: Space-age Bachelor Pad, as the author is currently working on the...
Tales of Excellent Cats
Before we were six. Now we are one. We differ on many points, but on these we agree: Always trust our instincts, always reward loyalty, and always pounce upon minions of the Unseen. Without these tenets, we are no longer worthy of the adoration of Man. Monarch Trillani Persian von Mau, deceased Cats have inherited the world, unifying their six fractious monarchies after untold centuries. These cats have been uplifted to use tools and language, and they seek to rediscover the ruins of the Old Ones.
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