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Alnwick
"Queerness as the vanguard of transformation,” the woman with the pink hair was saying, “that’s what it’s about. Whereas Deepika’s latest is more about conformity with the establishment. She’s this odd...
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A Forest Grew
It is five a.m. and all across town the shops are finally closing. When we step outside the pub, there are a lot of police on the streets, milling around, seemingly without purpose, moving the way that...
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Comics and speculative fiction.
Welcome to Middle Planet. We're publishing stories and comics online every week through August 5, 2015. If you'd like to read the complete first issue, you can buy the print and ebook editions now....
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It's Here
Whew. After some late nights, blood, sweat, tears, and eldritch interventions, Middle Planet No. 1 is a thing in the world:You can order the print and ebook editions from our shop. You can also read...
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Sometimes the future arrives at unexpected times, and in unexpected forms. Our story this week is Charles Wilkinson's "A Visitor from the Future," a gorgeous meditation on disjuncts in both time and...
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A Visitor from the Future
Windy in that week in February, as it had been last year, when so much of what Mrs G had been was scattered by a single event. Perhaps bits of what had once helped to constitute her identity were still...
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Creep
This week we've got a lovely, mindbending comic by Jenn Liv. The less you know going into this one, the better. Check it out!Read comic
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Creep
Jenn Liv is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist based in Toronto. Her reoccurring dreams include either getting caught in a tornado or being chased down by a poltergeist. You can find her online at...
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Don't Harm the Wine
Jorge's tongue stuck to the rook of his mouth, his saliva pasty, rancid like the land. The weight of his bag grew heavier, pinching into his lower back, a hot swelling of pain that grew numb with each...
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This week, Cyn Bermudez's powerful "Don't Harm the Wine" explores the spaces where rations and bureaucracies run up against our appetites:Jorge's tongue stuck to the rook of his mouth, his saliva...
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Stick a Pin in Me
I want to make a statement.You ready? You got your notebook? All right.It has been intimated to me that I should accept the stone god who appeared overnight in my yard as an absolute reality, a...
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In our final story from Issue No. 1, Vajra Chandrasekera gives us a remarkable story of the ways democracy and divinity can entangle, mutate, and compete for an individual's soul. Do yourself a favor...
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Spring 2016.
Every two weeks through June, we're publishing a new story, comic, or essay from our second issue. Doesn't that mean some of these will be summer reads, not spring? Yes. Shh. Don't want to wait? The...
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Asleep in the Traces
Marie was halfway to the train station, contemplating how far she could get with what she had in her pockets, when she heard the giant coming over the mountain, rumbling and cracking like ice on a lake...
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This Part of the Body
What part of the body is this?” Aiko asked.“Labia,” I joked.We were sitting just above the mouth of the ocean. The water, dark and fearsome, clawed at layered sheets of black rock in waves of bright...
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The Only Train to Woonaburra
I didn't find out why the train broke down until much later—some nonsense about a geomagnetic anomaly or solar storm. It’s all voodoo to me, but whatever it was did a real number on the railroad...
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Canopy Fox, Land Crab, and Tree Frog
Field research was expensive. So securing funding was as much a part of a field researcher's job as cleaning pottery, or preparing articles for publication.As far as that part of Meri's job went, she'd...
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Atomic Comix
Emma von Skov is a comic artist and painter from Denmark based in Berlin. She is inspired by the atmosphere in horror stories, science fiction and art of the Romantic era. Her work depicts feelings...
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The God of Little Fork
When I was a boy, the God used to come to our village. I know you've heard the story before, but there are few of us left to tell it. It's good for you hear the story again. Perhaps some day the God...
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Forward!
Well, here we are in the dizzying, protest-energized, absurdist dystopia of 2017. We started Middle Planet largely because we were inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's 2014 National Book Award speech, in...
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