My first thought when I finished reading Prime Meridian was that Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes like she actually understands what it’s like to not be economically comfortable. The main character, Amelia, is a young working class woman who struggles to make a living as a ‘friend-for-hire’ in the app-based gig economy of an imminently near future…
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Interview with M. Shaw, author of One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve
Hi Sam, thanks so much for joining me, it’s a pleasure to get to chat with you. First off, I read in a previous interview that you work in a haunted museum. Are you a big believer in ghosts and the supernatural? Personally, I make it a rule to only believe in things that aren’t…
From the Editor – Issue #2
Welcome to Issue #2 of Seize The Press! Thanks to everyone who read our first issue, it was a much bigger success and had a far wider reach than I ever thought possible when I took the plunge and decided to start an anticapitalist dark fiction magazine from scratch. Hot off the success of the…
From the Editor – Issue #1
Spend any amount of time perusing the dominant short fiction magazines and big awards and it won’t take you long to see the kind of stories that are being pushed right now. They’re didactic and moralising, very often everything is wrapped up in a neat little package with little room for interpretation or further questions….