a duplo rejection / of baseplate reality
the little air inside my lungs / when you peer underneath the table at dog
How might we conceptualise an AI girlfriend who is neither girl, nor friend, but comrade?
No one wants to see dead animals. They’re a reminder of the things that matter but not enough. The silent beaks, the red-stained feathers, are accusation—You chose this—and they are right.
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, editor Kat Kourbeti talks to Nghi Vo about how Strange Horizons kickstarted her publishing journey, her weird and interesting life before writing took off, and the fearlessness it takes to make a writing career happen.
Well, here we are fam, and here it is. The final episode of The Slide. We started listening to this in 2023! Two years, my dudes! So much has happened since then, like seriously, loved ones have passed on and I moved to a new place and I’ve laughed and cried and stuff like that. But like the spirit of Sauron, The Slide endured. Frankly, this story hasn’t panned out like I thought it would. Even though the terrible horrible no-good very bad mud has brain cells and squeaks like a rubber duck, I feel it has not really reached
