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Jamie Barras

Jamie Barras is a British-born chemist and world traveller currently based in Osaka, Japan. He has more stories due out soon in Black Static, Interzone, and The Leading Edge; and is currently on the second draft of his first novel, The Distance.


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Current Issue
4 Nov 2024
Fiction
The Butcher’s Heart 
By: AnaMaria Curtis
“Did you know,” the witch says, “that a witch has no heart of her own?”
Poetry
Djinndroid 
By: Sara Omer
Outsiders, Off-worlders {how quickly one carves out a corner of the cosmos, / claims a singular celestial body as [o u r s] in the scope of infinity}
Poetry
Departure: New Selene Station 21:56 
By: K. M. Praschak
Lunar enby folks across here
Reviews
Monday: The 2024 Ignyte Award for Best Novel Shortlist, Part One 
By: Tehnuka
Wednesday: The 2024 Ignyte Award for Best Novel Shortlist, Part Two 
By: Tehnuka
Friday: A Place Between Waking and Forgetting by Eugen Bacon 
By: Maya C. James
Read Issue
Issue 28 Oct 2024
Fiction
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackened Husk of a Planet 
By: Adeline Wong
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 3: An interview with Arkady Martine, and a reading of her poem 'Cloud Wall' 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Arkady Martine
Podcast read by: Kat Kourbeti
Read Issue
Issue 21 Oct 2024
Art, Fiction
Faith is a Butterfly Resting on a Rotting Eye (or The Art of Faith) 
By: Gabrielle Emem Harry
Art by: Shan
Poetry
Cornhusk Doll With Face 
By: Meagan Chandler
Poetry
SOMETIMES I WISH GHOSTS WERE REAL SO I COULD SAY ALL THE THINGS 
By: Steve Witherspoon
Podcasts
Podcast: Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead 
By: KT Bryski
Podcast read by: Devin Martin
Reviews
Monday: Cinderwich by Cherie Priest 
By: Rebecca Turkewitz
,
Wednesday: The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert 
By: David Hebblethwaite
,
Friday: Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells 
By: Electra Pritchett
Read Issue
Issue 14 Oct 2024
Poetry
Phrogger 
By: David Bowers-Mason
Poetry
Nose (Knows) 
By: Emma Goldman-Sherman
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 2: An Interview with Kate Heartfield 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Kate Heartfield
Reviews
Monday: The 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Shortlist, Part One 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Wednesday: The 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Shortlist, Part Two 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Friday: The Nightward by R. S. A. Garcia 
By: Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Read Issue
Issue 7 Oct 2024
Fiction
The Aquarium for Lost Souls 
By: Natasha King
Poetry
fursonas are not enough, i need to be a moss-coated mech 
By: Wren Douglas
Poetry
Amitruq Nekyia 
By: Sonya Taaffe
Podcasts
Podcast: A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief 
By: Christopher Blake
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Reviews
Monday: Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova 
By: Ian J. Simpson
,
Wednesday: The Other Side Of The Mirror by Dana Evyn 
By: Racheal Chie
,
Friday: The Shrieking of Nothing by Jordan A. Rothacker 
By: Dave Fitzgerald
Read Issue
Issue 30 Sep 2024
Poetry
Worlds I Didn't Hear 
By: Brian Hugenbruch
Poetry
The Battle Verses of Prufrock J. Alfred 
By: Rachel Rodman
Articles, Non-Fiction
In Other Wor(l)ds 
By: Shrinidhi Narasimhan
Columns, Non-Fiction
Stories From The Radio: The Slide - Danger Point 
By: Kuzhali Manickavel
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 1: A Long-Awaited Celebration 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Michael Ireland
Reviews
Monday: Capitalism: A Horror Story by Jon Greenaway 
By: Aran Ward Sell
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Wednesday: The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister 
By: Sally Parlier
,
Friday: Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson 
By: David Lewis
Read Issue
Issue 23 Sep 2024
Art, Fiction
#000000: From the Permanent Collection 
By: LeeAnn Perry
Art by: nino
Poetry
morphology 
By: Jennifer Mace
Poetry
waning, waning 
By: Marisca Pichette
Reviews
Monday: Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology edited by Dennis Wilson Wise 
By: Daniel A. Rabuzzi
,
Wednesday: When Shadows Grow Tall by Maressa Voss 
By: Tristan Beiter
,
Friday: The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou 
By: Duncan Lawie
Read Issue
Issue 16 Sep 2024
Fiction
Whale Fall 
By: J.L. Akagi
Poetry
A War of Words 
By: Marie Brennan
Poetry
[time wrinkles] 
By: Emily O Liu
Reviews
Monday: In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran 
By: Archita Mittra
,
Wednesday: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older 
By: Safia H. Senhaji
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Friday: Shadows Rising by Rohan Monteiro 
By: Sneha Pathak
Read Issue
Issue 9 Sep 2024
Poetry
Aubade from the After Days 
By: Mary Soon Lee
Poetry
She Remains 
By: Jan Cronos
Fiction
Dead Ringer 
By: Ali Householder
Reviews
Monday: The 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremony directed by Thomas Jolly 
By: David Lewis
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Wednesday: MADNESS by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué 
By: Octavia Cade
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Friday: Luminous Beings by David Arnold and Jose Pimienta 
By: Nileena Sunil
Read Issue
Issue 2 Sep 2024
Fiction
Eyeteeth 
By: Emma Johnson-Rivard
Poetry
Veiling the Statues 
By: Raven Jakubowski
Poetry
Inheritance 
By: Elis Montgomery
Reviews
Monday: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar 
By: Electra Pritchett
,
Wednesday: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal 
By: Rachel Cordasco
,
Friday: This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings 
By: Ian J. Simpson
Read Issue
Issue 26 Aug 2024
Azimuth, Editorials, Non-Fiction
A Hugo Award - And More! 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Poetry
The Final Trick 
By: Angela Liu
Poetry
My Favorite Taiwanese Folktale 
By: Caroline Hung
Articles, Non-Fiction
Africanfuturism Beyond the Future 
By: Jenna Hanchey
Columns, Non-Fiction
Science Fiction is an Intellectual Technology 
By: Ada Palmer
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 12: Canon-Building with Abigail Nussbaum 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Reviews
Monday: From the Belly by Emmett Nahil 
By: E. C. Barrett
,
Wednesday: Rose/House by Arkady Martine 
By: Vanessa Jae
,
Friday: Technical Slip: Collected Stories by John Wyndham 
By: Octavia Cade
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