And now announcing: the Unlikely Story PDF subscription

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Two bits of news: First of all, the PDF of Issue 8, The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography, is now completed. It contains all the stories and artwork of the web version, as well as some bonus materials, like author interviews, bringing it to 120…

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Barry King Author Interview

Monday, February 24, 2014

Your story, Something in Our Minds Will Always Stay, is rich in imagery, and weaves together a lot of narrative threads – the nature of self and memory, the relation of humans to technology and to each other, and that’s just scratching the surface….

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Maps and Metamorphoses

Sunday, February 2, 2014

It’s February 2nd, and that marks the day when we shift from maps to chitin. Submissions for The Journal of Unlikely Cartography are now officially closed, and we are now accepting buggy fiction for The Journal of Unlikely Entomology. In the meantime, we’re pulling…

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Unlikely Story Acceptances – ToC and (dis)Honorable Mentions

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Well, it’s done. We’ve read the Journal of Unlikely Story Acceptances slush. We’ve discussed it. We’ve re-read some of them and discussed some more (thank Dog they’re short). And now we’re ready to give you a taste of the pain that we inflicted upon…

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Author Interview – Mark Rigney

Monday, January 13, 2014

I [editor A.C. Wise] am a sucker for “found” stories. Was there a particular inspiration for Found Items that made you structure it as a series of audio tapes as opposed to a straightforward narrative? I wrote this story maybe eight years ago, sent…

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