Words for Thought: January 2022
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A.C. Wise
A.C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice being a finalist for the Sunburst Award, twice being a finalist for the Nebula Award, and being a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She has two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella published by Broken Eye Books. Her debut novel, Wendy, Darling, is forthcoming from Titan Books in June 2021, and a new collection, The Ghost Sequences, is forthcoming from Undertow Books in Fall 2021. In addition to her fiction, she contributes review columns to Apex Magazine and The Book Smugglers. Find her online at acwise.net.
Words for Thought: December 2021
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise
Words for Thought: November 2021
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise. Reviews of recent short fiction about upheaval and change.
Words for Thought: October 2021
Welcome to another Words for Thought! This month’s column will discuss three recent stories and two slightly older stories, all by Indigenous authors, and all dealing in some way with the theme of perspective and perception. How do we see ourselves, how do others see...
Words for Thought: September 2021
In this edition of Words for Thought, A.C. looks at stories Welcome to another Words for Thought! Fall is on the horizon, though as I write this, it’s still miserably humid outside and cooler weather, turning leaves, and a desire to switch to hot coffee from iced feels ages away. Fall may well be my favorite season, a little melancholy, but also beautiful, hope and loss mixed all into one. These five stories are all about dealing with grief nnd loss in some way, but also have a degree of hopefulness.
Words for Thought: July 2021
This month’s stories look at how we define ourselves, how our relationships shape us, and what it means to be responsible to and responsible for others.
Words for Thought: May 2021
A.C. Wise reviews stories of hope in dark times, forging connections, and believing things will get better.
Words for Thought: March 2021
This month, A.C. reviews stories that deal with themes of memory and reflection—what do we preserve and hold onto, for whose sake, and why?
Episode #75: The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century
Enjoy our audio presentation of “The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century” by A.C. Wise. Narrated by Alyson Grauer. Produced by KT Bryski.
The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century
“Think of Georges Méliès,” the old woman says. “Moon men appearing in puffs of smoke. Only these were like fairy tales, the old kind meant to assure the world that women were empty-headed, foolish, and vain. I’ll give Don Leaming this, he thought up dozens of clever ways to make us die.”