The sixth issue of Heartlines Spec is focused on relationships that once were and some that still are. These stories and poems span different types of loss, of grief, and how each allows for transformation. Whether it's spider-aliens in a forest, a dying starship, or new familiar – change is fundamental.
Each week, we will release two free-to-read pieces on our website. Paid subscribers have complete access. All levels of subscribers can read select pieces ahead of public release.
Buy Issue 6
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Editorial
Short Fiction
Do You Know How the Lotus Flower Blooms? by T.H. Young
If Ever I Would Leave You by Katherine Heath Shaeffer
Grief's Apogee by R. J. Howell
Butchered Tongue by Gunnar De Winter
Two by Two by Two by Celia Winter
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
Poetry
Lonely Rocks by Tabor Skreslet
my lover and i, sat in a giant space rat by Veda Villiers
The God of Friendship by Allison Burris
Non-Fiction
Devouring Jackie: Cannibalism, colonialism, and the power of female transformation by Aly Laube
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