As someone who writes weird and slipstream fiction, I know how hard it can be to find pieces with the aesthetic I enjoy. Great weird writing often falls under general fantasy, science fiction, or horror categories. I’ve collected some of my favorites that are sure to keep you in a curious mood. If you want to receive monthly updates about the Curio Cabinet, sign up for my email list.

Technology as Religion, Searching for the Perfect Time, and Just a Story

4 min read

Thoughts on: Promises We Made Under a Brick-Dark Sky by Karen Osborne, I’m Feeling Lucky by Leonid Kaganov, and The Child Feast of Harridan Sack by Kaitlyn Zivanovich

At the Apex: What I Love this Month

4 min read

Thoughts on How to Be Good by R Gatwood, What Sisters Take by Kelly Sandoval, and The Fine Print by Chinelo Onwualu.

A March Roundup of Great Fiction

3 min read

Thoughts on Spells for Going Forth by Day by V.G. Campen and Keeping House by Sarah Day

A Few February Treats

4 min read

Thoughts on: Things That Happen When You Date Your Ex’s Accidentally Restored Backup from Before the Divorce by LISA NOHEALANI MORTON, The Van Etten House by Carrie Laben, and We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It by E.A. Petricone

A Bit of Poetry

3 min read

Curios: Bird by Crystal Ignatowski, Medusa Gets a Haircut by Theodora Goss

A Taste of the New Year

4 min read

Thoughts on: My Country is a Ghost by Eugenia Triantafyllou, Intentionality by Aimee Ogden, Forward Momentum and a Parallel Pass by Anamaria Curtis

Snakes, gods, Gods, and bodies

5 min read

Thoughts on: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Her Body and Other Shorts

5 min read

Thoughts on: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Memoir as Surrealism

5 min read

Thoughts on: In the Dreamhouse by Carmen Maria Machado

What DOES happen when a man falls from the sky?

1 min read

Thoughts on: What Happens when a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Sinking Into Toni Morrison’s Beloved

5 min read

Thoughts on: Beloved by Toni Morrison

What Shall We Be?

2 min read

Thoughts on: We Shall Be Monsters edited by Derek Newman-Stille

Cyclists, Ghosts, and Connection… Oh My!

3 min read

Thoughts on: We Are the Flower by Claire Humphrey

Meta Yet Fun

4 min read

Thoughts on: Does Earth have a Future? by Andrew E. Love, Jr.

Of Covens and Death

2 min read

Thoughts on: “The Coven of Dead Girls” by L’Erin Ogle

A Mother’s Perspective

3 min read

Thoughts on: The Cost of Wonder by Leah Cypess

Corvids and Viruses: Story Time During Quarantine

2 min read

Thoughts on: When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis by Annalee Newitz

Recipes Aren’t Only For the Kitchen

2 min read

Thoughts on: A Handful of Dal by Naru Sundar and Sweet and Sour Christmas: A Recipe by Tara Campbell

This Week’s Obsession: Welcome Back by Jessica Starika

2 min read

Thoughts on: Welcome Back by Jessica Staricka

The Soul and Consumerism in Cloud Atlas

3 min read

THoughts on: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

On the Topic of Sex: Sexbot’s Lament by Eric Del Carlo

3 min read

Thoughts on: Sexbot’s Lament by Eric Del Carlo

Halloween Treat: Lucy Pemgrass Eats a Crow

2 min read

Thoughts on: “Lucy Pemgrass Eats a Crow” by Koji A. Dae

Examining Language: Pomegranate, Pomegranate by Jack Westlake

3 min read

Thoughts on: “Pomegranate, Pomegranate” by Jack Westlake

Gushing Over “The Propagator” by Simone Kern

2 min read

Thoughts on: “The Propagator” by Simone Kern

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