Storyological 1.06 - LATER EVERYTHING

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