Amelia Gorman

Dec 4, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Ann Leblanc |Steve Denehan |Amelia Gorman |Archita Mittra

“Ask me something only I would know.”You say this to your wife because you know you’re human. You can feel it in the familiar ache in your back, and the fear writhing in your guts. You feel it in the cold seeping into your bare feet from the kitchen floor. You know you’re real because you remember. You know I’m the duplicate. The imposter. The monster. Your wife—our wife—isn’t so sure. You and I stand shivering naked in the drafty kitchen, perfect copies of each other, at least on the outside.

Dec 4, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Amelia Gorman |Ann Leblanc |Steve Denehan |Archita Mittra

The docent says to me, “see his tail? see his claws and jaws? see his ears?”Those were always the first thing to gowhen they came at it with their saltpickand their steaming mason jars. This oneis whole and dare-I-say factory-original. Mine-pure and un-chiseled like an undergroundno one can pass through, dark with no tunnels. I’m stalked by the Pickling Dogs, thosesalt sculptures from an earlier time.

Dec 4, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Steve Denehan |Ann Leblanc |Amelia Gorman |Archita Mittra

At first, I thought it was me somehow reflected in faraway silhouette an atmospheric affectation a dark gas geyser then, it waved there is not much to do here now each day being the same as the last for ten years, more I get up, wash, eat walk to the edge of the crevasse, and sit and think the only movement until recently has been the light split by the glacier into hazy dancing rainbows now, there is the shape four limbs, a torso, a head humanoid, but not necessarily human we are not so far...

Dec 4, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Archita Mittra |Ann Leblanc |Steve Denehan |Amelia Gorman

Gabriela Romero Lacruz’s debut, The Sun and the Void, is an enjoyable epic fantasy novel about reincarnated gods and underdog survivors, that richly draws upon Venezuelan myth and folklore. Intricately plotted and peppered with a broad cast of characters, the novel’s primary storyline follows two women of mixed heritage navigating a world rife with prejudice and treachery, where they must constantly prove themselves—at times with detrimental consequences.

Apr 24, 2023 | parksandpoints.com | Amelia Gorman

The sands stretch forever on this side of the world,            walking the staghorn paths of the dunesand pulling my body up the rope staked in my hand. I hurled            this body over curves of ground, under curves of moon. The tracks ahead of me narrow            the wide way; they stagger and swagger; they stilt            and I can see bones crack and multiply, tiltat the waist and expand. Then marrowflows like water, teeth tip like an arrow,            A load shot at the sun.