No Sun to Guide the Way by Steve Toase
Dagmar waited for Phillip to get off his phone, refusing to face the retail unit they now paid rent on…
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Category: Issue 8
Witch-in-Residence: Weird
Witch-in-Residence Issue 8: Weird | 1,036 words With Witch-in-Residence, Speculative City imagines...
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Descent into the Archives
“We require the Tirani correspondence from the archives. Do not open it. Do not read it. Bring it to us.”
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Save Yourself: John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness and the Cinema of the Weird by Victor H. Rodriguez
John Carpenter’s horror movie Prince of Darkness opened in 1987 to mixed reviews, barely breaking even its opening weekend…
Read MoreLetter from the Editors: Weird
Letter from the Editors by Meera Velu and Devon MontgomeryIssue 8: Weird Thank you for tuning into Speculative City’s Summer 2020 issue: Weird. Speculative fiction is a relatively young genre, yet it boasts a robust collection...
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Laundromancy by Amelia Gorman
It’s a common enough thing,
a quarter, a fortune…
Terminal by Dona McCormack
Cat trembled in her bed, dared not to move, dared barely to breath…
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I’m sorry, I tried, I love you by G.G. Silverman
Lately, you are forced into a gender role that you do not want: the woman who cleans her house every morning…
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The recent back-to-back murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and countless other Black individuals bring grief and rage.
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