Short story: Tongue by Ashok K. Banker, from Lightspeed Magazine, August 2017. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Devotion (“I Am on the Battlefield for my Lord”) by Cortney Lamar Charleston, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.
Essay: Lonnie Zamora and the Socorro UFO, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from August 2017. Recommended.