Marissa van Uden is a freelance editor and writer from Aotearoa-New Zealand who now lives in rural Vermont in a little cabin in the woods. She is the editor-in-chief of Violet Lichen Books (an imprint of Apex Book Company) and an associate editor and interviewer for Apex Magazine. As an anthologist, her credits include the Apex Magazine Strange Microfiction anthologies and The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird (forthcoming). Her fiction has appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Zero Dark Thirty, Los Suelos, and Vastarien Literary Journal. She posts about Weird fiction, wild nature, and bog-witch life at Twitter/X (@marissavu), Instagram (@marissa.vu) and Bluesky (@marissavu.bsky.social).
And that’s how I think of love, deep at the core: being seen, being valued, being remembered.
In “Their Wings as Powdery as Bones,” giant moth-like angels have appeared over a town, partially destroying it and spreading...
In “Birds of a Feather,” the youngest son in a rather strange family is aware of mysterious happenings and disappearances around...
In “What Good Daughters Do,” Janey is not only watching her mother in decline and dealing with the grief of this process, but...
“Kizimbani,” by Eugen Bacon and Clare E. Rhoden, is a surreal story about a traveler, Luna, who finds herself crash-landed and...
In “A Lullaby of Anguish,” two sisters, Cassia and Antonia, carry the guilt of their past with them in different ways, but they...
“The Owl” is a beautiful and tragic coming-of-age story, one that reveals the many small but profound moments that can impact...
“The Clown Watches the Clown” by Sara S. Messenger is a masterfully written story about a masochistic janitor of a cybermotel...
“Those Left Behind” by Kanishk Tantia is a thoughtful, gentle story about both humans and machines navigating grief, love, and...
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