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“Manywhere, Manyone, Manything” by NM Whitley
I. The torturers arrive, stocky and headless, clad only in loincloths. Dark eyes scowl in their chests, noses protrude from their sternums. Their truculent sneers open like a slash across their bellies. At first, they ask no questions. They lash me to one of the long tables in the main cavity of the vessel-fish, they…
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“Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn” by Avra Margariti
For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time. Until the night before twelfth grade, when you decided to rend us asunder with a few simple words: “I would like to go back to being normal until graduation.” Normal, you said. Normal being straight. Being girlish. Being girl. What would you…
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“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy
Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees her. She’s not there, though. She’s never there. Brick City clicks. Grinds. Boyd steps away from the window and stands in the center…
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“Her Eyes in the Dark” by Curtis Hayden Hill
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“Where Is Your Light, Yvette Jones?” by Victor Forna
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The Horror on the End of Every Fork by Neal Auch
The publication of William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch was met with great controversy. The book was characterized as “a devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life” by its defenders, and as “ literary sewage” by detractors. Naked Lunch was eventually banned in several states because of obscenity laws;…
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Beyond Dualistic Cyberpunk: a review of You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi from Zachary Gillan
Cyberpunk is usually inextricably dualistic in its approach, most obviously in the dichotomy between cyberspace and meatspace, but also usually in its physical setting of the imperial core of the capitalist world-system; towering metropolises forcibly situating plenty and poverty side by side. In her superb new collection You Glow In The Dark, Liliana Colanzi excises…
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You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Review of Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool from Josh Pearce
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