100 Years of Weird Tales

when the March 1923 issue of Weird Tales hit newsstands, many people didn’t know what to make of this new magazine. But 100 years later, Weird Tales has had a…

What is the Defense System Father?

Barry Wilmore

Not Dad

Non-Paternity Event

The title refers to how, with the rise of DNA testing like 23-and-me, increasing numbers of people are finding out that the person they thought was their father isn't related…

A Girl Defines Herself

No one knows for sure where we came from; no one can say where we’re going. We are, in the linguistic sense, mysteries. Secrets. In some ways, threats.

We know different things

Outgrowth

“Something is changing in the greenhouse,” I tell my mother. She starts to ask what — but the phone drops. Service is shaky in the facility.

Spatchcock

The body hardly looked like a recognizable creature without the head, the feathers, the feet. She could almost forget it had been alive.

Everything So Different and the Same

How trees can’t cure cancer, but they still matter