First, this cover is *everything*! I adore it!

I started with the poetry in this issue of Uncanny Magazine, and I really enjoyed both poems!

'Cloudbending' by Jennifer Crow was wonderful.

If mortal hands could map the skies,
make clouds into countries
or sunsets into salvation,
what strange markets would open

I loved this part especially. The whole poem just flows so well. Read it for yourself here.

'Deep Bitch' by C. S. E. Cooney was also very striking and had some great lines.

She tuns her blunted head my way.
Nips me, rips me open slightly.
Her smile is all teeth.

*chills* Read it for yourself here. ( )

"The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History" by Sam J. Miller is a very powerful story. A slightly spec-lit twist on a real historical event brings a fresh new perspective to social injustice and the dangers of pushing a group past the breaking point.

"Translatio Corpis" by Kat Howard is a fascinating and beautiful fantasy tale of an abusive magical relationship between and city and a woman, the transubstantiation of the inanimate and the corporeal, and the reliquaries of saints.

"When the Circus Lights Down" by Sarah Pinsker is an imaginative and inventive story of intergenerational conflict of the choices we make and what is it is not truly best for us set against a magical and whimsical backdrop. ( )