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Robin Yassin-Kassab is the author of The Road From Damascus, a novel, and co-author of the non-fiction book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Books he’s recently contributed to include Syria Speaks, Shifting Sands, and Beta-Life: Stories from an A-Life Future. He writes book reviews and journalism too.


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11 Nov 2024

Their hair permed, nails scarlet, knees slim, lashes darkly tinted.
green spores carried on green light, sleeping gentle over steel bones
The rest of the issue is on its way. We think.
In the 4th episode of SH@25, Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with tabletop game designer and SFF critic Kyle Tam, whose young career has taken off in the last few years. Read on for an insightful interview about narrative storytelling from non-Western perspectives, the importance of schlock and trash in the development of taste, and the windows into creativity we find in moments of hardship.
The Lord of Mice’s Arrows 
After the disaster—after the litigation, the endless testimony, the needling comments of the defendant’s counsel—there is at last a settlement, with no party admitting error, and the state recognizing no victim, least of all yourself. Although the money cannot mend any of the overturned things left behind, it can pay for college, so that’s where you go next.
Friday: One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun, translated by Jung Yewon 
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Podcast read by: Devin Martin
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Art by: nino
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