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Irrepressible Thoughts of Death and Other #justgirlythings, by Shreejita Majumder

Never judge a movie by its marketing. July 2023 saw the height of the Barbie/Oppenheimer media phenomenon that took over the Internet as well as theaters all over the world. The contrast between the perceived content of the two movies releasing on the same day couldn’t be more jarring. The dark, somber tones of Oppenheimer …

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Remember This When They Find You, by Margaret Dunlap

issue 31 / fiction

NOVEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 600 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 31: When they find you, they take you in. They give you a warm blanket. They put you to bed in a small room on a cot that is not very comfortable, except …

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My Bonsai Lover in Winter, by Rachael K. Jones

issue 31 / fiction

NOVEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 840 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 31: Every year, I cut my lover down again. I begin with her fingernails, then remove the dead blossoms from her hair, combing it long and straight in the planet’s weak autumn sunlight …

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Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness, by Ali Trotta

issue 31 / poetry

You put grief into the earth,carefully, with your own two hands,and by the time you are done,there is dirt under your nails,a mess— but that offeringof tears howls like an exorcism,and you think maybe you got it right this time, finally,that you pulled the monsterout of your heart, insteadof setting it free— but in the …

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Sisyphus, Mid-Flight, by Leah Bobet

issue 30 / poetry

the trouble is: behind him,a crowd of whispers saysyou can, it is of worth, you can. do you not see how sick i amdo you not see what happenedto all the other chances, this body,this heart. the grass roadsidehas gone from green to brown.do you not see the waste heatthat’s become of me there’s good …

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Ask a Necromancer, by Amanda Downum

issue 30 / nonfiction

One From the Vaults Genevieve asks: Have you ever dug anyone up? Surprisingly enough, yes. Or at least, I’ve witnessed a disentombment—removing someone from a mausoleum niche—and bits and pieces of several disinterments, or exhumations—opening a grave. Working at a funeral home attached to a cemetery has its advantages. All the corpse relocations that I’ve …

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All the Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10, by Isabel Cañas

issue 30 / fiction

OCTOBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 2900 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 30: The frightening thing about Aunt Tae praying was that she never prayed, not anymore—not since Padilla flooded, she always said. Flooded. An absurd word. Flooded means that water moves, that it has …

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State of The Dead(lands) 2023

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Another October has come to a close, and with it the funding for Year 4 of The Deadlands. Thank you SO MUCH to the 150 of you that bought our fundraising coin—we raised $4350 with the sale of of Ferryman’s Coin. Those coins have been ordered and should arrive at Psychopomp HQ in about 30 …

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Lifting the Veil Between the Dead and the Living: Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca, by N.K. van Riemsdijk

issue 30 / nonfiction

Día de los Muertos is celebrated throughout Mexico and wherever Mexicans living abroad can be found. Normally falling on November 1 and 2, in some regions such as Oaxaca it can extend for much longer, being traditionally celebrated from October 31 to November 6. You need that much time if you are going to do …

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Kagewani, by Betsy Aoki