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Storyological

English - March 14, 2016 13:37 - 27 minutes - 31 Bytes - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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In which we discuss "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar & "Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea" by Sarah Pinsker, along with, among other things, Tom Hanks movies, the progress of pilgrims, and VH1's Behind the Music.

In which we discuss

1. "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar, Uncanny



























Note: "Pockets" won the Uncanny reader's poll for favorite story from 2015! 

2. "Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea" by Sarah Pinsker, Lightspeed



























Along with, among other things...

Listen to Amal El-Mohtar read “Pockets” in an episode of the Uncanny podcast


Some poems by Amal El-Mohtar
“The New Ways”, Uncanny
“This Talk of Poems”, Mythic Delirium
“Lost”, Strange Horizons


The magic of lists


Castaway


The Pilgrim's Progress
charactonym, after aptronym, a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of that character
Also, you might also call the names in Pilgrim’s Progress, allegorical.


VH1: Behind the Music


Lying to ourselves, a podcast by the amazing Radiolab


J.G. Ballard, “The Catastrophist”
Drought
Cocaine Nights