Issue 8

Issue 8 features portals, aliens, and metamorphoses. These stories and poems are about growing up, growing apart, and growing together. As much as our characters wish they could stay locked in their favourite moments, life goes on. The same relationships years apart look different, and that’s okay—that’s the beauty of connection.

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.

Editorial

Editorial by Emily Yu

Short Fiction

For the Pursuit of the Better by Chey Rivera

An Ear for Magic by Esi Aboagye

It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks

And I Will Read to You About Butterflies by P.A. Cornell

Girl Adventure Story by Rose Maxwell

Kissing, Brain Parasites, and a (Mild) Nuclear Explosion by J. Needham

Under the Skin by T.R. Steele

Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Cranes by Kanishk Tantia

Poetry

riptide by Rukman Ragas

Liturgy for Boys who Bloomed before the World was Ready by CP Nwankwo

Time Loop by Prasant Atluri

Orbit Decay by Bella Chacha

What the Birds Taught Me by Nico Martinez Nocito

Nonfiction

Outcast and Outspoken: Aloy’s Social Re-Integration in the Horizon Series by TJ Rowley

Coup de Coeur: Recent spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal

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