A Short History of Pseudopod: Episodes 1 to 100
Submitted for your approval, or perhaps just to induce madness, a small reminder of what PSEUDOPOD has brought you these last few years, as we rapidly close in on Episode #300. Dare you attempt to...
View ArticleA Short History of Pseudopod: Episodes 101 to 200
(clasps hands behind back and walks into shot) Welcome to our audio archive of eerie, atavistic atrocities (lights cigarette), a carefully curated cacophony of chilling curiosities, sure to curdle the...
View ArticleA Short History of Pseudopod: Episodes 201 to 300
(creaking door) Welcome, boils & ghouls, to our gory little abattoir of the airwaves, a festering waveband of wretchedness we’ve dubbed Pseudopod! Woven into this website of witchery are some truly...
View ArticlePseudopod 303: Flash On The Borderlands XIII – Responsible Parties
A Murder Of Crows by Tres Crow Tres Crow lives in Atlanta with the two people he loves most in the world. He’s been published in decomP, Emprise Review, Full of Crow, The Foundling Review, as well as...
View ArticlePseudopod 311: Flash On The Borderlands XIV: Resistance!
For Pearl Harbor Day, three flash pieces about fighting back … No Further by Matthew Acheson This piece was previously published in “Underground Voices” magazine and is one of two stories available to...
View ArticlePseudopod 330: Flash On The Borderlands XV: At Your Service!
Do you feel an implicit threat in the query “How May I Help You?” “Last Waltz in Texas” by Bryce Albertson This story originally appeared in Necrotic Tissue #10 and was reprinted in THE BEST OF...
View ArticlePseudopod 347: Flash On The Borderlands XVI: Trial & Discipline
“Passing Grade” by Paul DesCombaz This story has not been published elsewhere. Paul says, “This is the middle of the story. I have only a vague idea what happens before or after.” PAUL DesCOMBAZ lives...
View ArticlePseudopod 353: FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XVII: Keeping Up Appearances
Things are not always as they seem… “Down By The Sea Near The Great Big Rock” by Joe R. Lansdale This story first appeared in MASQUES (1984). JOE R. LANSDALE, who recently appeared here with PSEUDOPOD...
View ArticlePseudopod 367: Flash On The Borderlands XVIII: Pseudopod Forum 2013 Flash...
PSEUDOPOD PRESENTS THE WINNERS OF THE ESCAPE ARTISTS FORUM’S FLASH FICTION CONTEST 2013 THIRD PLACE “Whispers From The Trench” by Robert McKinney Robert McKinney thinks about spaceships, dragons, and...
View ArticlePseudopod 374: FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XIX: Blood On The Tracks – Departure,...
Going nowhere… faster…. “Midnight Express” by Alfred Noyes. “Midnight Express” first appeared in This Week, November 3, 1935. ALFRED NOYES (1880-1958) is primarily remembered as a poet, especially for...
View ArticlePseudopod 377: Showcase: The Dark Audio Tone Poems of The Spectre Collector
by Ron Jon. “Barking Mad” “Shortcut” “From The Deep” “Quite Mad” “Christ, I Think It’s Death” RON JON has written and published children’s books; scripts and screenplays for animation and live action;...
View ArticlePseudopod 385: FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XX: Community
Hell is other people… ************************************************************************ “Penance” by Liz Colter. “Penance” is a previously unpublished story. “This story began, as some of my...
View ArticlePseudopod 403: FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XXI: The Tyranny Of Objects
“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.” – André Breton ************************************************************************ “Digit” by Gabriel R. Miller. This is the first...
View ArticlePseudopod 410: Flash On The Borderlands XXII: Britshock
by Francesca Haig, Lou Morgan, Den Patrick, Andrew Reid, Richard Kellum, Severity Chase & Peter Newman A gaggle of new Flash Fiction to warm your heart and chill your bones… The Day The Words Took...
View ArticlePseudopod 411: Flash On The Borderlands XXIII: Grief
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis ************************************************************************ “Poor Me and Ted” by Kate Jonez “Poor Me, and Ted” first...
View ArticlePseudopod Christmas 2014 Bonus Flash: Tradition
by L.M. Ball. “Tradition” is original to Pseudopod! “It was at WriterHouse in Charlottesville, Virginia that I founded a member group for sci fi, fantasy and horror writers to meet and support each...
View ArticlePseudopod 429: Flash On The Borderlands XXIV: Femmes Fatales
“I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful—a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.” La Belle Dame sans Merci, John Keats...
View ArticlePseudopod Bonus Flash: The Discussion Of Mimes
by Michael Payne. “The Discussion Of Mimes” is making its first appearance on PSEUDOPOD. “Why are so many people afraid of clowns and amused by mimes?” MICHAEL PAYNE is a comedian who has written for...
View ArticlePseudopod 436: Flash On The Borderlands XXV: Simulacra
“The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance...
View ArticlePseudopod Bonus Flash: Fan Letter To Joe Lansdale
by Adrian Simmons. “Fan Letter To Joe Lansdale” is making its first appearance on PSEUDOPOD. ADRIAN SIMMONS writes science fiction, fantasy, a little non-fiction, and a little horror. He is a founding...
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