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Letter from the Editors
Aleksandra Hill, Kanika Agrawal, Rowan Morrison, Zhui Ning Chang, Isabella Kestermann, and Sachiko Ragosta

Special Content

Coming soon: excerpt of Liar, Dreamer, Thief and an interview with its author, Maria Dong!

Interview with Naseem Jamnia
Questions by Aleksandra Hill

Excerpt: The Bruising of Qilwa
Out from Tachyon Publications

Fiction

High Performer
Jason Pangilinan

Wayback
Leslie What

Human Trials
Madeleine Vigneron

Ace of Knives
E. A. Xiong

Mappamundi
Angelisa Fontaine-Wood

Non-Fiction
Art

Previously Published

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Category: Fiction

Fiction

Umeboshi

When I get the first email I think it’s some sort of role-play, a scavenger hunt set up by the conference organizers for participants between

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Fiction

The Abode of the Palms

I blew my magics on the dagger, said Odea, so that when you slit its throat, it will bleed all its blood to feed the

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Fiction

Kwong’s Bath

The visits start a week after Kwong’s first surgery.  Despite the stinging January cold, the high school boyfriend sits on the tiled floor in his

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Fiction

The Field Guide for Next Time

Archivist’s note: This textile has been gifted to the Community Archive by Auntie Cade Persaud before her airship travels east. It is a collaborative record

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Fiction

The Shadow and the Light

In the city of K—, every building is a mountain; stairs of stone lead up their facades to steel-gated doors. It rains often, so the

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Fiction

The Land of Happiness

The traveler arrived, motion-sick and weary, in the country where everyone was happy. She had slept on the trip over, but it was a journey

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Fiction

For However Long

My son sent me a birthday card the other day, a digitally painted holograph of dinosaurs that dance across the edge of my desk, most

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Fiction

In April, the Dead

It’s April and the sea gives up her dead again. We gather on the beach every afternoon, when the waters recede the furthest away. Mum

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Fiction

This Is What You Came For

It starts with a beat. A steady electronic thump in my chest. Electric waves pulsing through my body with a feeling like forever before breaking

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Fiction

Rattlers

Massive poplar trees are the only things keeping the midsummer sun from baking me alive in my regalia. Buckskin, usually light and breathable—perfect for anything

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