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#300

PseudoPod 948: A Relationship in Four Haircuts

‘A Relationship in Four Haircuts’ was originally published in the 2024 anthology Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration A Relationship in Four Haircuts By Ai Jiang Narrated by [Your Name] You met him on Etsy. That’s right. Not a dating app, but an online marketplace for small business owners. You’d asked about a custom jade ring you’d been sniffing around for… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/11/08/pseudopod-948-a-relationship-in-four-haircuts/) ... Read more

08 Nov 2024

30 MINS

30:03

08 Nov 2024


#299

PseudoPod 947: Will They Disappear

‘Will They Disappear’ originally appeared in the 2024 collection The Nightmare Box from Cursed Morsels Press From the author: “This piece is based on the horrendous real-life story of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, two white women who adopted six Black children and then proceeded to abuse them for years. (In a ghoulish twist, they brought their children to Black Lives Matter rallies. [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/11/04/pseudopod-947-will-they-disappear/) ... Read more

04 Nov 2024

47 MINS

47:07

04 Nov 2024


#298

PseudoPod 946: Toby and The Halloween Parade

PseudoPod 946: Toby and The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. Andrew Garfield and Elmo Alasdair Stuart Previous Halloween Parades It’s a long walk from Founders Cemetery, but I am old, dying, and don’t mind the wait. The trick-or-treaters are out already, unusually boisterous this year, yet I barely hear them. I sit on my back porch in my creaky rocking chair… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/10/31/pseudopod-946-toby-and-the-halloween-parade/) ... Read more

31 Oct 2024

25 MINS

25:30

31 Oct 2024


#297

PseudoPod 945: The Gobstomper

PseudoPod 945: The Gobstomper is a PseudoPod original. A lot changes as you get older, thought Wilkie Saunders. For example, he’d been sure older boys like Tom Dunn—who was either in 10th or 11th grade depending on if you counted the year he was repeating—hated his guts. Tom had tormented Wilkie and his friends everywhichway for years. And yet here they all were in the dark… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/10/28/pseudopod-945-the-gobstomper/) ... Read more

28 Oct 2024

24 MINS

24:47

28 Oct 2024


#296

PseudoPod 944: The House That Stands Over Your Grave

PseudoPod 944: The House That Stands Over Your Grave is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “For as universal as it is, I find it weirdly difficult to explain grief in a way that feels satisfying. It’s a slippery, nebulous thing. It can hide from you or disguise itself, look like one thing on the surface while growing into something else underneath. It can reach out for the people… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/10/25/pseudopod-944-the-house-that-stands-over-your-grave/) ... Read more

25 Oct 2024

35 MINS

35:45

25 Oct 2024


#295

PseudoPod 943: Oneirophobia

“Oneirophobia” originally appeared in NEVER WAKE: A DREAM HORROR ANTHOLOGY, edited by Kenneth W. Cain and Tim Meyer, and published by Crystal Lake Publishing on 9/8/23 From the author: “I’ve experienced sleep paralysis a few times in my life, but the first time was the most unsettling, and the memory has remained with me ever since. In that instance, I was home from college for a… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/10/18/pseudopod-943-oneirophobia/) ... Read more

18 Oct 2024

29 MINS

29:34

18 Oct 2024


#294

PseudoPod 942: The Sound of a Jackknife

PseudoPod 942: The Sound of a Jackknife is a PseudoPod original. The Dead Room Pontypool I only took the Tremaine gig because of Shepherd’s recommendation. “This one won’t pay much,” Shepherd admitted over the phone. People chattered in the background along with an indistinct electronic beat. “But Tremaine’s someone you’ll want to know in a couple of years. [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/10/12/pseudopod-942-the-sound-of-a-jackknife/) ... Read more

12 Oct 2024

40 MINS

40:18

12 Oct 2024


#293

PseudoPod 941: In Haskins

“In Haskins” originally appeared in Apex, issue 127 Everyone, both the young and the old, went about their lives as usual on the day of the Mask Festival. The downtown streets were covered with colored leaves and Mr. Burkett still waved at children and swept in front of his storefront. Mrs. Farley still clucked to Mrs. Durant on how the new teachers at the old school would not… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/10/04/pseudopod-941/) ... Read more

04 Oct 2024

35 MINS

35:36

04 Oct 2024


#292

PseudoPod 940: Controlling Your Weeds

PseudoPod 940: Controlling Your Weeds is a PseudoPod original. NIMBY https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/not-in-my-back-yard#:~:text=’Not%20in%20My%20Back%20Yard,development%20in%20their%20local%20area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY Get Out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Out I always mow it twice a week during peak season. [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/10/01/pseudopod-940-controlling-your-weeds/) ... Read more

01 Oct 2024

24 MINS

24:23

01 Oct 2024


#291

PseudoPod 939: Cheating Death

CW: Ableist slur This material originally appeared in The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Henry L. Herz published by Blackstone Publishing (©2023) I didn’t join in as my surviving family members conversed over dinner. Usually, the aroma of hearty pork and cabbage bigos stirred my appetite, but today it reminded me of the past… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/09/23/pseudopod-939-cheating-death/) ... Read more

23 Sep 2024

49 MINS

49:55

23 Sep 2024


#290

PseudoPod 938: Sea Curse

“Sea Curse” was originally published in Weird Tales, May 1928 The Soul Cages And some return by the failing light And some in the waking dream. For she hears the heels of the dripping ghosts That ride the rough roofbeam. —Kipling THEY were the brawlers and braggarts, the loud boasters and hard drinkers, of Faring town, John Kulrek and his crony Lie-lip Canool. [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/09/13/pseudopod-938-sea-curse/) ... Read more

13 Sep 2024

26 MINS

26:09

13 Sep 2024


#289

PseudoPod 937: The Yearning of the All-Devouring Earth

PseudoPod 937: The Yearning of the All-Devouring Earth is a PseudoPod original. It’s always when we find a moment of peace that the universe remembers we exist—or maybe it’s less that the universe remembers, and more that it feels bored in our general vicinity and has to do something about that. The local middle school flooded over the summer. The afternoon rain we expected… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/09/06/pseudopod-937-the-yearning-of-the-all-devouring-earth/) ... Read more

06 Sep 2024

35 MINS

35:46

06 Sep 2024


#288

PseudoPod 936: Flash on the Borderlands LXXI: A Gibbet of Flesh

“Every Part of You” was first published in OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror, edited by Ruth Anna Evans, in March 2023 and was also included in Hexagon Magazine’s The Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction, Volume 1. “To Be Human” is a PseudoPod Original “Taproot” is a PseudoPod Original “Every Part of You”: CW terminal illness, body horror, insects “To Be Human” is… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/08/30/pseudopod-936-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxxi-a-gibbet-of-flesh/) ... Read more

30 Aug 2024

31 MINS

31:01

30 Aug 2024


#287

PseudoPod 935: The Hollow Temple part three

“The Hollow Temple” was first published in Black Mask, December 1928. This is the second of four novelettes that were fixed up into the novel The Dain Curse. The Thin Man (Novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man The Thin Man (Movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film) Moonlighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlighting_(TV_series) Beyond Belief… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/08/23/pseudopod-935-the-hollow-temple-part-three/) ... Read more

24 Aug 2024

43 MINS

43:13

24 Aug 2024


#286

PseudoPod 934: The Hollow Temple part two

“The Hollow Temple” was first published in Black Mask, December 1928. This is the second of four novelettes that were fixed up into the novel The Dain Curse. IV I spent most of the day fidgeting in and out of my room. The general vagueness of my job in this Temple hadn’t bothered me much before—I had had plenty of even more aimless operations in my twenty years of sleuthing… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/08/16/pseudopod-934-the-hollow-temple-part-two/) ... Read more

16 Aug 2024

42 MINS

42:23

16 Aug 2024


#285

PseudoPod 933: The Hollow Temple part one

“The Hollow Temple” was first published in Black Mask, December 1928. This is the second of four novelettes that were fixed up into the novel The Dain Curse. I Eric Collison came into my office. There was too much pink in his eyes and not any in his skin. He sat down and said: “She can’t go. They can’t let her go. You’ve got to go with her.” His voice, like his face… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/08/12/pseudopod-933-the-hollow-temple-part-one/) ... Read more

12 Aug 2024

49 MINS

49:30

12 Aug 2024


#284

PseudoPod 932: The Man With A Serpent In His System

“The Man With a Serpent in his System” originally appeared in London Mystery Magazine Selection (No. 99) November 1973. Jane reached out to us in 2023. She told us that, back in the 1970s when she was in her twenties, she wrote and had ‘The Man With a Serpent in his System’ published in the London Mystery Magazine Selection. Now in her 70s, she was hoping that we might bring it to… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/08/10/pseudopod-932-the-man-with-a-serpent-in-his-system/) ... Read more

10 Aug 2024

22 MINS

22:31

10 Aug 2024


#283

PseudoPod 931: What He Woke

PseudoPod 931: What He Woke is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “This story was written before the 2024 British General Election. The MP whose voting record inspired these events has since been fired by his constituents. We didn’t feed him to a sea monster. Honest.” Sources The Woke thing was out of control, in Caroline’s humble opinion. Everything was woke. [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/08/08/pseudopod-931-what-he-woke/) ... Read more

08 Aug 2024

51 MINS

51:05

08 Aug 2024


#282

PseudoPod 930: The Dabblers

“The Dabblers” appeared in the 1928 collection The Beast with Five Fingers It was a wet July evening. The three friends sat around the peat fire in Harborough’s den, pleasantly weary after their long tramp across the moors. Scott, the ironmaster, had been declaiming against modern education. His partner’s son had recently entered the business with everything to learn… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/07/26/pseudopod-930-the-dabblers/) ... Read more

26 Jul 2024

24 MINS

24:28

26 Jul 2024


#281

PseudoPod 929: Bonesoup

“Bonesoup” originally published in Strange Horizons, July 2022 From the author: “My initial idea was a Hansel and Gretel retelling where the Evil Witch actually has children of her own. It became a story about Greece’s intergenerational trauma, called Occupational Syndrome, caused by the Great Famine of 1941-1944. This trauma still influences the way people act to this day and… [Source] (https://pseudopod.org/2024/07/19/pseudopod-929-bonesoup/) ... Read more

19 Jul 2024

22 MINS

22:07

19 Jul 2024