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3 weeks ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Natalia Theodoridou |Kristin Hannah |Alison Espach
A rich, relentless—if overlong—tale of violence and the men who wield it. Theodoridou’s “Bluebeard” retelling asks if monsters are born or made. An unnamed stage actress sits in her apartment, telling her young son a fairy story. Urged on by the ghosts of blood-drenched women that only she can see, she speaks of a boy born in a stately home.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
therumpus.net | Natalia Theodoridou
After Mother puts you to bed and you’re almost asleep, another woman appears at the threshold of your bedroom door, backlit, her hair haloed by the yellow light of the hallway. She looks just like your mother, except she’s taller and there is no love for you on her face. There is, however, an urgency. And, urgently, she tells you stories. She tells you about a woman she knew when she was growing up. Her name was Stella. She was married to a guy with a motorbike.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
uncannymagazine.com | Natalia Theodoridou |Clockpunk Studios
I’m getting ready for the block party: dark eyeliner, obligatory silver glitter (we’re on the moon, after all, we have our fashions), beard trimmed to perfection, hair carefully dishevelled. I do my best, yet the good mood won’t stay on, no matter what I try. Because the moon is cursed, isn’t it, and I feel like disappearing again. Neither of those things can be helped.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | Natalia Theodoridou |Kate Baker
Podcast, Original Fiction TEXT VERSION Our fifth podcast for July is “Aktis Aeliou, or The Machine of Margot's Destruction” written by Natalia Theodoridou and read by Kate Baker.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
beneath-ceaseless-skies.com | Marilyn Hope |Jonathan Olfert |Natalia Theodoridou
Narrated by Cat Rambo. Rang and Sunder crafted slaws of vinegar and greens and sea salt, eating from the same spoon, and out-of-season wood ear mushrooms pillowed out on elder tree trunks like clouds the day Rang stripped Sunder of a glove and kissed his knuckles. Every time they touched, the world sparked with life and pungency and an unnamable, inorganic scent, as if the catalysts of their alchemy had yet to be invented.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
choiceofgames.com | Natalia Theodoridou
You've played this game before. It's a haunted game about a haunted game. You may not remember, but the game remembers you. I remember you. This game requires JavaScript; please enable JavaScript and refresh this page. If you can't get the game to work, please write to us [email protected] for assistance. Scroll DownSpaceScroll UpShift + SpaceNext OptionJPrevious OptionKNext (Press and Hold)EnterJump to Option1 - 9Show StatsQMenuWShow Shortcuts?
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | Natalia Theodoridou
He knows she is coming before she understands what it is she’s looking for. He doesn’t know her name yet—it is Margot—but when he hears it for the first time, he will think of all its meanings (“pearl” and “child of light” and “daisy”), and he will decide that only a few of those meanings suit the woman who bears it. He will wish she had a different name.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | Natalia Theodoridou |Kate Baker
Our seventh podcast for April is “The Oldest Fun” written by Natalia Theodoridou and read by Kate Baker. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:53 — 17.7MB)Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS | MoreNatalia Theodoridou has published over a hundred short stories, most of them dark and queer, in magazines such as Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nightmare, and F&SF, among others.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
apex-magazine.com | Natalia Theodoridou
In the end, she goes to the bar on her own. It’s the first one she comes across after she storms out of the office. She’s seen it before, of course—she sees it every time she takes the same route back to her house—but she’s never set foot in it. It didn’t seem like the right vibe, the right crowd. And she was correct, it isn’t.
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May 7, 2024 | 
tinhouse.com | Natalia Theodoridou
“A diamondwork—a treasure chest filled with objects from another world.”—Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord’s baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin smells of soil, and his eyes remind her of the dark forest.
