Strange Horizons

Poetry

A New Face

By: Terese Mason Pierre

13 Jan 2020

My child has a new face / Something came out of her

Poetry

ode to an asexual

By: Nikoline Kaiser

6 Jan 2020

Do you want to be made love to?

Poetry

The City That Changed Hands

By: Maya Chhabra

23 Dec 2019

one day we woke up left-handed. the tanks had come while we slept, driving on the wrong side of the road.

Poetry

Pillage, Thundersnow

By: Liu Chengyu

16 Dec 2019

lightning, wind, husks of trees / down from the night sky. / This celestial and terrestrial war / fire and water

Poetry

Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)

By: Jessy Randall

9 Dec 2019

I stand in a cell for suffrage.

Poetry

Gretel's Bones

By: Mari Ness

2 Dec 2019

small bones / holding flecks of ash / rigid in her hands.

Poetry

Autologous Transplant

By: Nisa Malli

25 Nov 2019

You might call us cyborgs but our augmentation is mostly flesh

Poetry

The far western regions of the archipelago are where the dragons live

By: Alicia Cole

18 Nov 2019

because everything in death is both forgetting and remembering, he’s already discovered the dragon’s name

Poetry

The Mother Searches For Her Own Story

By: Mary McMyne

11 Nov 2019

You’re the girl with the basket full of bread and cream, who wandered somehow into this life.

Poetry

Syndrome

By: Ugonna-Ora Owoh

11 Nov 2019

your spongy tongue | as political as begging the world to drown