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PseudoPod 1033: Devil is Fine
1w agoTap to summarize“Devil Is Fine” was first published in Cosmic Horror Monthly, in January 2025 C/W: strong body horror, gun violence, animal harm Author notes: “I was still pretty drunk on the experience of playing Red Dead Redemption 2 when I wrote this story and wanted to write a Weird western that took place in the plains where I’m from – and of course, add my touch of Weird/ Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1032: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVIII (78): Terraeque urbesque recedant
2w agoTap to summarize“Jacob Street” was first published in the Fall 2024 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction “Everyone Drinks At Sunrise” was previously published as ‘Depredadora’ in the anthology Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond from Dark Holme Publishing “Othertongue” is a PseudoPod Original “Six Best Things to Do in Dim (and/or Lost) Carcosa” is a PseudoPod original C/ Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1031: Her Skin
3w agoTap to summarize“Her Skin” first appeared in the anthology, They Walk Among Us: A Collection of Utah Horror (42 Books, April 2020). C/W: intimate partner abuse/control Notes contain possible spoilers: see Host Commentary below He found her in Hells Canyon. After that, my friend Oss liked to brag about how he’d gone fishing in the Snake River and caught a wife instead… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1030: Keeping Up With the Conan Doyles
4w agoTap to summarizePseudoPod 1030: Keeping Up With the Conan Doyles is a PseudoPod original. C/W: disordered eating, fat-shaming May 22nd is Conan Doyle’s birthday and Sherlock Holmes Day Jess Whitecroft’s Patreon Cautionary Tales: Photographing Fairies From the Journals of the Society for Psychical Research. Interview with Angela Patterson, housekeeper of Latham Hall… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1029: Feeding the Choke-Tree
May 15Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1029: Feeding the Choke-Tree is a PseudoPod original. Okja “Straws,” I said. “Why straws?” “Because they’re cute, obviously,” said Foreman. “Don’t you think?” I squinted at them. Nearly a dozen were inching around his feet. As I watched, one flopped onto his boot, looking like a second shoelace. I guessed you could have called them cute—if you happened to be… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1028: All The Eyes That See
May 8Tap to summarize“All The Eyes That See” was originally published in Cosmic Horror Monthly issue #42 (ed. Charles Tyra, December 2023); it also won the 2023 Australian Shadows Award for Short Fiction. C/W: child abuse, domestic abuse From the author: “This story is me once again exploring the absolute weirdness of rural Australia, like I continue to do in my Tales From The Gulp books… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1027: This Thing of Darkness
May 1Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1027: This Thing of Darkness is a PseudoPod original. C/W: grief, approaching death Nissa Harlow: nissaharlow.com Tina Connolly: tinaconnolly.com ‘Don’t Put a Rug on a Polished Floor’ public information film Scarred for Life on Bluesky: @scarredforlife.bsky.social Writers from the Antarctic call Anthologies and Collections 2026 call 7… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1026: Thoughts and Prayers
Apr 24Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1026: Thoughts and Prayers is a PseudoPod original. C/W: Gun violence, school shooting https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5317647/school-shooting-industry https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craft_(film) https://www.findlaw.com/ Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1025: Impostor Syndrome
Apr 17Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1025: Impostor Syndrome is a PseudoPod original. The Mighty Boosh-Back to the Crunch Looking back, the first red flag was during the job interview, when Chad said their target demographic was males, ages thirteen to seventeen. “That’s pretty specific,” I said. He shrugged. “Market research.” If I had been using the critical thinking skills I obtained from five… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1024: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVII (77): The Only Enemy You Can’t Live Without
Apr 10Tap to summarize“Witchcraft” was first printed in Ornaments in Jade, 1924 “How I Turned My Little Brother Human” was first published in Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, edited by Eric Raglin, in September 2025 “Visit Seahaven” was first published in Factor Four magazine in 2024 “Get Nourished” is a PseudoPod original C/W: pregnancy and pregnancy loss, death in the family, child death… Source
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