The short answer is Peer Music. The long answer is a bit more complicated: Oliver Hood—the man who likely wrote “You Are My Sunshine,” one of the most well-known and beloved songs in the English language—never received official credit for it.     Fans of Michael Lutz’s “My Father’s Long, Long Legs” will recall that its […]

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Chikodili Emelumadu is a writer, journalist and broadcaster living in London. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apex, Eclectica, Omenana, One Throne and Luna Station Quarterly. She can be found ranting about life, Igboness, and whatever else seizes her fancy on Igbophilia.wordpress.com. She is the author of this week’s story, “The Fixer.” This interview […]

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Bruno Dias is the São Paulo-based author of “Mere Anarchy”, “When the Land Goes Under the Water,” and most recently this week’s story, “Prospero.” He can be found on Twitter. This interview was conducted by instant message on September 8, 2015.     Tory Hoke: How did you first get involved with IF? Bruno Dias: I’ve been reading IF […]

“Prospero”, which sub-Q published earlier this week, was written using a relatively new tool called Raconteur. Raconteur is a library of tools that wraps and extends Undum, an engine for writing choice-based and cybertext interactive fiction using plain JavaScript. Raconteur supplies a toolchain and CoffeeScript-targeted API for Undum, which is meant to hugely accelerate the process […]

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What are all these hidden puzzle posts about? Nearly every Tuesday there’s a puzzle in the sub-Q newsletter. The puzzles lead to destinations on our site where you can collect loot. Want to see what we mean? Check out our newsletter archive. Like brain teasers? Like loot? Like truly terrible puns? Sign up for our […]

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Natalia Theodoridou is a Media & Cultural Studies scholar based in the United Kingdom. Her strange stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Interfictions, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Occasionally, she tweets as @natalia_theodor. She is the author of this week’s story, “Sleepless.” This interview was conducted by email in August 2015.     Devi Acharya: To start off, […]