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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents poetry from the August issues of Strange Horizons.



Holly Lyn Walrath is a writer of poetry and short fiction. Her work has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, Mithila Review, and other places. Her poetry was nominated for an SFPA Rhysling Award. She is a freelance editor, contract editor with Writership.com, and volunteer with Writespace, a nonprofit literary center in Houston, Texas. She currently resides in Seabrook, Texas. Find her on Twitter @hollylynwalrath or at hlwalrath.com.
Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of a novel (Can’t Find My Way Home) and two collections (Sinking, Singing and People Change), all published by Aqueduct Press. Her work has appeared in Uncanny, Escape Pod, Penumbric, and Not One of Us. For more about her work, visit http://gwynnegarfinkle.com.
Lora Gray (they/them), is a non-binary speculative fiction writer and poet from Northeast Ohio who has been published in various anthologies and magazines, including Uncanny Magazine, F&SF, and Asimov’s. Lora is also a graduate of Clarion West and a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Excellence Award in Fiction Writing, and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award. You can find Lora online at lora-gray.com.
Elizabeth P. Glixman is a poet, artist and writer. Her written work captures the humor and the strangeness of modern culture as well as the fluid world of personal emotions. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks. Elizabeth is an assistant editor at FRiGG magazine.
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I had a daughter and then I didn’t. I woke in the cradle of midnight, shivering from a supernatural cold. I thought at first that she was crying, that she had woken me, like so many midnights before. But there was silence all around me. I sat up on one arm and peered into her crib. She was gone. In her place was wrapped a sallow, horned little boy. His eyes blinked open. I look at him. He looked at me. Changeling, I thought. Then he started to scream. “Why weren’t the windows
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