Mara wouldn’t let us turn on the flashlight function on our handcoms because it would “alert the Martian advance scouts.” And obviously I one hundred percent didn’t believe there were any Martians, because the grown-ups had done a bazillion scans for life-forms not to mention digging into the rock for like twenty years.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Gabriela Santiago's “Martian Cinema.”

there are emerald hummingbirds at the window / snapping their beaks against the fairyglass / but she will never let them in

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Ashley Bao's “secrets from a telepath.”