The Uncanny
By Utopologist
Short, unsettling stories about things that seem a little bit off.
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The UncannyJul 21, 2022
Impostor
In 1895, a woman in Ireland was murdered by her husband. At his trial, he claimed that the person he had killed wasn't his wife, but someone pretending to be her.
The War Prayer
Written by Mark Twain (1904)
Commute
There are places only minutes away from the lights of the city that can feel completely isolated.
Emergency alert
It changes depending on where in its elliptical rotation it is, but the average distance the moon is from Earth is 382,500 kilometers, or 238,855 miles.
With gratitude to Kris Straub of Local 58.
Bolter
If we knew all the legends about our area, we would feel differently about home.
Traffic jam
written by Gabriel Costantino
Mountain roads at night sometimes feel like they don't follow the same rules as the rest of the world.
Urban exploration
In any metropolitan area, there are any number of abandoned buildings just full of secrets and surprises.
Pull
One of the things kids experience if they move away for school can be confusion and unease at returning to what used to be their home.
Night drive
The average running speed of a human in good shape is between 10 and 15 miles per hour. People have been documented sprinting short distances at almost twice that speed.
Face
If you're expecting a quiet night at home by yourself, someone else coming around can be an extremely unwelcome surprise.
The Fever by Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn's 1990 play The Fever is about capital and class struggle and commodity fetishism and liberalism and guilt, and about someone coming to terms with the injustice in the world and his own role within that injustice.
Music: Phill Niblock -Works for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice
Sarah Davachi - For Voice