From across the darkened rooftop of the long-abandoned engine plant, Geli heard the unmistakable whirring of drone blades. Shit, she thought. Not here, too. She looked up from her work weeding the…

Green flows from your imagination onto the page, bleeding viridescent liquid through the intermediary of your brush. The handle bends to your grip like the natural extension it’s been for as long as…

The photos hardly did Smith House justice. Its stone façade loomed above the red oak, black cherry, and eastern hemlock that had thronged the country roads for most of my drive.

I used to like birdwatching, especially hummingbirds, until the feeder on my apartment balcony started getting one-star reviews on CHURP. “Those birds are so wrong!” I declared one Friday night…

Welcome to the catacombs of via Altamontivecchi, the grandest and one of the most ancient in the world. I will be your guide for this special pilgrim’s tour in the English language. If you have booked...

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If the dead who loved her haunt an old home’s bones, what haunts the newbuild? What makes her creak and moan? Every house is a violence—and a weathered house knows this better than most—but if the…

Today we present A Proof of Unicorns by Elizabeth Creith. She is an award-winning writer living and working in rural Northern Ontario with her husband, dog and cat. She’s been published since around…

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Today we present A Proof of Unicorns by Elizabeth Creith. She is an award-winning writer living and working in rural Northern Ontario with her husband, dog and cat. She’s been published since around…

Are you new to PseudoPod? Don’t let our two decades of stories daunt you! For our twentieth anniversary we’ve assembled a list of twenty (see what we did there?) of our slightly more recent stories…

Ubi amor, ibi dolor – where there is love, there is pain “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.” – C. S. Lewis No one knows who found the Dark Room first. Maybe it found us?