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Home’s Duplex

Jun 12, 2024 | meanjin.com.au | Lesh Karan

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The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft

Nov 22, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Eric Primm |Beston Barnett |Lesh Karan |Jaye Nasir

Secrets are the hidden coin of politics. Whether state, military, or personal, secrets give one power over another. Skeletons buried deep in closets provide leverage, and often people will go to great lengths to protect theirs. In Josiah Bancroft’s latest novel, The Hexologists, secrets abound. More than that, it’s a book built upon hidden things. One of the main characters, Isolde Ann Always Wilby, is a detective who excels at finding hidden things.
Red Writing Hood

Nov 20, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Lesh Karan |Beston Barnett |Jaye Nasir |John Ajvide Lindqvist

The sky is moon, pushes and pulls the seawithin. Eclipsed by something like desire,she slips into her red identity,a basket tucked beneath. She weave-walks, partsthe brambled path towards the forest’s heart,her steps persistent like a chant. Entranced,she harvests sweet-sour fruit under the moon’sregard, and teeth-pierces each orb. The juicesluices a blood-warm trail. A shameless spillageor sharp portrayal? Either way, it luresthe wolves from layered lairs.
November By Jaye Nasir

Nov 20, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Jaye Nasir |Beston Barnett |Lesh Karan |John Ajvide Lindqvist

Sleep in threadbare night, gray and steadyas a float of fog. God or what I call it beatingheavy in my gut. Dreaming as gray recursion,as god weeping fog. The Angel Who is All Eyesand the Angel Who is All Wings still knowhow to speak to each other. It’s easy: they sing. They sing! They sing!Can’t you hear them singing? Their voicessound just like the moon and her syrupy light. Fog is made of dead souls hanging in the air. It is. Do not speak to me of water vapor. Stoptelling me how to see the world.
The Kindness by John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated by Marlaine Delargy

Nov 20, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Rachel Cordasco |Beston Barnett |Lesh Karan |Jaye Nasir

There’s something about sludge that is truly awful. It’s thick, dark, slow-moving, made up of who-knows-what. And in the fiction of bestselling Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, it embodies horror.
Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe

Nov 20, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Beston Barnett |Lesh Karan |Jaye Nasir |John Ajvide Lindqvist

Lowercase “i”i am a memory. i am an METI carrying a memory. i am an METI (Message to Extraterrestrial Intelligence) carrying a memory beaming through the vacuum of space. Because i am an METI, i presume my purpose is to communicate with extraterrestrials, should i find them. However, either because i was made in haste or because my makers were themselves undecided, i am not sure what it is i am to communicate.
Strange Horizons - By Strange Horizons

Nov 19, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Beston Barnett |Lesh Karan |Jaye Nasir |John Ajvide Lindqvist

In the primary memory i carry, it is June 29, 1993 and, I, Beston Barnett, am nineteen years old. I am lying in my sleeping bag on the ground beside River Road, eleven kilometers northeast of Moab, Utah, USA, Earth, Solar System, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster. A woman is there beside me in her own sleeping bag. Her name is Ann Surmelian, and she is two years older than me. We are listening to Patsy Cline’s greatest hits.
tinnitus as hushing haibun

Jun 29, 2023 | overland.org.au | Lesh Karan |Jason Gray |Ouyang Yu

she existed in masks: lorikeets loudest in the mornings, leaves deliberating on a breezy day, blinds fluttering against the sill, the hum of conversation on the footpath by her window, Fleetwood Mac, her fingers on the keyboard (tippity-tap), her anxious dog’s paws pattering on the floorboards, her husband’s snoring at 3am, the off-and-on whir of the coffee machine, cafes cackling like campfire, firetruck sirens every 43-degree day. maybe silence doesn’t exist she thinks.