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S/D/Y Feb 09 – Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and Found by AnaMaria Curtis – Uncanny When I saw the title of this story, I knew it had to be my next read. I love museums. They are what I missed most during the lockdowns. And I love weird impossible speculative museums even more. Ma…

Day 40! I read Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and Found by @anamariacurtis.bsky.social published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Purgatory is a painting, a portrait of yourself. Read my review here:
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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 62, “Mermay - Golden Hour" by Maxine Vee: In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The quote reads: "While the Museum of the Lost and Found has an abundance of beautiful, thought-provoking pieces best viewed over multiple visits, we understand that your visit today must be brief. We have therefore created a personalized guide for your visit, based on the hesitance of your touch on the door and the waver in your smile."

ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine Poll?

Try the short story "Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and Found" by AnaMaria Curtis @anamariacurtis.bsky.social!

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I watched this episode at 5am (jetlag) and I have been thinking about it all day!!! Honestly so good, so much fun, I whispered "I love pain" out loud to myself multiple times...

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, “Listen To Me And I'll Tell You A Story" by Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe: In the depths of the sea a little girl sits on what looks to be a giant pink/green octopus tentacle. Several other tentacles extend in the background, curling in the depths. Towards the front and surrounding the little girl is a school of pink fish, some of them stop to listen as she holds one finger up. She looks like she is about to start telling a story. On the lower right corner, another school of fish is making its way over the tentacles, towards the edge of the cover. The quote reads: "We waited and longed for the caravan with constant, sickening hope for one reason: It protected us from the killing. The killing could never touch us under the overpass, and it did not strike anywhere when the caravan was near, so the caravan was our salvation."

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Caravan" by AnaMaria Curtis @anamariacurtis.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 62, “Mermay - Golden Hour" by Maxine Vee: In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The quote reads: "While the Museum of the Lost and Found has an abundance of beautiful, thought-provoking pieces best viewed over multiple visits, we understand that your visit today must be brief. We have therefore created a personalized guide for your visit, based on the hesitance of your touch on the door and the waver in your smile."

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and Found" by AnaMaria Curtis @anamariacurtis.bsky.social!

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Normalize AI-shaming Remember when you were a child in the supermarket and you wandered off, then looked up at a stranger thinking it was your mom, but it wasn’t your mom? That’s how AI feels.

I loved this essay about clawing back a sense of humanity and community where and when you can, by @caytonholland.bsky.social!!!

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collage of ocellated turkeys which have blue skin and bright red and yellow dots on their heads and brilliant red rimmed eyes. they have a fit on top of their head and their foliage is an iridescent delight

statistically a lot of you won’t know about ocellated turkeys, so, here you go

A woman at a gas station in Philly asked me if I was a rower "because of your arms" once, and it was so unexpected that I still think of it fondly a decade later

Still can't believe someone published this weird little story. Give it a try!

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 62, “Mermay - Golden Hour" by Maxine Vee: In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The names of the contributors, as well as “Uncanny January/February Issue 62,” are atop the image in white letters. The quote reads: "While the Museum of the Lost and Found has an abundance of beautiful, thought-provoking pieces best viewed over multiple visits, we understand that your visit today must be brief. We have therefore created a personalized guide for your visit, based on the hesitance of your touch on the door and the waver in your smile."

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and Found" by AnaMaria Curtis @anamariacurtis.bsky.social!

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Romantic Fantasy | Contents Announcement | A Breath of Time We’re very pleased to present the list of stories selected for one of the first two titles in our new Romantic Fantasy series: A Breath of Time!

At about 4am, I sent a very messy draft to my long-suffering writing group (🫶 y'all).

And in March, you'll all be able to read "Stitching Time" in the upcoming Breath of Time anthology from Flame Tree Press!

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On June 30 at about 9pm, I turned in my master's thesis (actually, I didn't, but I THOUGHT I had, and that's a different story).

At 10pm, I finished dinner and said, you know what would make this evening so much more fun? If I wrote an entire short story tonight also.

Being in a language class as an adult feels so silly sometimes. Like, yes, I wrote a 150 word report on bugs, and I'm very proud of it. Also I have a job.

An EXCELLENT short story. I still think about it months later

Read this last week and LOVED it

Left cover of The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq featuring a blue and dark green vaguely human shaped blobs. Right REVIEWS Quote "Overall, this novel richly exploits science fiction’s great capacity to imagine the otherwise and denaturalize what seems inevitable and natural. The adventurous analogy between height and gender will surely provoke much discussion, and—hopefully!—controversy." reviewer: Kyle R. Garton 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons

Left cover of Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith featuring a diagram of a mechanical beetle with wing open. Right REVIEWS Quote "The collection also reimagines what a new “natural” world might look like in the wake of an Anthropocene apocalypse. The newly fashioned environment is certainly not the same as the one that originally existed, since it’s based almost entirely on human and mechanical intervention." reviewer: Vivian Wagner 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons

Left cover of Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce featuring the side view of a person in a shirt with a lace neck and chest and a skeleton hand across the chest and a a long skeleton cameo necklace hanging from the ear. Right REVIEWS Quote "a richly alive narrative that is able to think through its ideas because of its grounding. It draws the reader in by insisting on its details—and in so doing serves as a reminder of the power of the granular in choices, communities, and storytelling." reviewer: Tristan Beiter 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons

The reviews are in!

The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq
reviewed by Kyle R. Garton

Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith
reviewed by Vivian Wagner

Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
reviewed by Tristan Beiter

Link to the latest issue in our bio!

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Idk how all you coffee enjoyers do it. I had a desperation coffee six hours ago and my body still feels how a Chihuahua looks

SAM KERR SCORING GOD BLESS

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR FAR TOO LONG. 634 DAYS SINCE WE LAST SAW HER PLAY, SAM KERR IS BACK ON THE PITCH. WE ARE SO HAPPY 😍😭💙

Just read a story I wrote (and revised and polished and was very proud of) ten years ago...

VERY grateful for the time and opportunity I've had to improve since then, oh my goodness. 😬😬😬

The Caravan - Uncanny Magazine The highway cut across the landscape like an old wound, a raised, scarred line on a scale we could not understand and therefore simply lived with. We could not climb the walls that held it up, could n...

Listened to "The Caravan" by @anamariacurtis.bsky.social from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 66.
Very interesting story that left me hungry for more about this world and the characters.
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Do you have any idea how bad it has to get for international humanitarian orgs to declare famine, rather than "almost a famine" or "famine-like conditions"?

Don't you want to read new stories by @seraph76.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @anamariacurtis.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @atgreenblatt.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social? LET'S DO THIS, SPACE UNICORNS!!

I have just posted an announcement about @giganotosaurus.bsky.social being placed on pause for the next couple of months. My family has been dealing with a couple of back-to-back losses, so things are a bit hard right now. I've posted more info on FB, so feel free to go there to see what's up.

This is just to say that @diabolicalplots.com is one of those quietly standup people in the writing sphere doing the good work, not only by maintaining the Submission Grinder itself but in keeping an eye out for publications that, accidentally or otherwise, are not doing right by their authors.

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