Poetry: Anarch by Amanda Mitzel

'a halo webbed and weaving / and electric bright / with roots of neon to spear inside / that soft spot under your ribs'

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Thank you to Reactor (formerly Tor.com) and Holly Kybett Smith for including “Sunflower Astronaut” by Charlie Espinosa on this list of cosmic poems! 🙌

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The Jaxicans' Authentic Reconstruction of Taco Tuesday #37 by Stephen Granade

'Mike lay awake, trying to forget what the Jaxicans had told him. He hadn't been revived because he was special. He'd been brought back because he was available.'

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The reviews are in!

Menewood by Nicola Griffith reviewed by Catherine Rockwood!

The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen!

Find your next favourite book at the link to the latest issue in our bio!

grateful to the entire Strange Horizons team for giving this story a home.

please read it 🙌

Poetry: Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis by Abdulrazaq Salihu

'I carry the pebbles and arrange
Them around my mother's ache'

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Vermilion is now live on Strange Horizons! it was inspired by emigrants that tɛmpul rɔn through death and danger in search of 'greener' pastures. so in love with this story and its blend of themes. i couldn't be happier to have it out on SH.

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Vermilion by Victor Forna (Victor Osman Forna)

'Fifty-eight goggle-covered eyes in the whipping vermilion dust, vermilion snow. Scarves waving in a desolate desert. Iridescent intertwined rainbow-coloured gowns, oil-slick refugees fleeing...'

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Incredible to see some of our wonderful pieces featured in Locus Magazine's review round up! Thanks to Charles and the team 😍locusmag.com/2024/03/charle…

Poetry: Voyeur | Voyeur by E.N Díaz ( E. N. Díaz )

'You have to be sweet
like sun-warmed honey,
that's what daddy says.'

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Non-Fiction: 'Dis/entangling Human-Animal Intimacies in Nghi Vo's When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain' by Aman Erfan

'Neither the humans nor the tigers are shown to possess an original or authoritative version of the narrative...'

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ICYMI: my short story recs from Dec and Jan, with stories from BCS Online Magazine khōréō magazine clarkesworld Strange Horizons MorningTransport The Rumpus Fantasy Magazine and House of Gamut

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And the reviews are in!!

This issue's reviews are on Twice Lived by Joma West - as reviewed by Eric Hendel - and Overlap: The Lives of a Former Time Jumper by N. Joseph Glass - as reviewed by Racheal Chie.

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'Aviary' by Kailee Pedersen.

'All that is sublime in the world
can be found among the birds'

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'Feeder Fish' by Anne Mai Yee Jansen.

'Her body, if you can call it that, isn't the muscular grace of the gliding bat rays. It's more like ink in water [...] She is as much a part of water as the salt, but far more lethal.'

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I have two poems on the SF & F Poetry Assn Rhysling longlist! “The Beauty of Monsters” (@SmallwondersSFF) in short + “An Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis” (@strangehorizons) in long poems. Thank you to the kind readers who voted for them!🙏 sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand.ht…

My poem is now live Strange Horizons!

Set in a futuristic world, the narrator—a cyborg under scrutiny—offers a defense against accusations and implications of wrongdoing.

Do give it a read, loves.
😚

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'The Cyborg's Side of the Story' by Martins Deep (The Martins Deep.)

'Blessed be to the tenderness in you, giving in to mercy as my guilt is to just another episode of things that never happened.'

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