
Golden Girl
By the time you reach Holtsburg, where your wrong family is waiting for you, you don’t speak at all. “Oh,” says your wrong mother after
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Letter from the Editors
Aleksandra Hill, Kanika Agrawal, Rowan Morrison, Zhui Ning Chang, Isabella Kestermann, and Sachiko Ragosta
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
Some Thoughts on Cuisine and Culture
Aliette de Bodard
Ketchup Pork Chops and Foreign Potatoes
C. H. Hung
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The Creeping Moon
By the time you reach Holtsburg, where your wrong family is waiting for you, you don’t speak at all. “Oh,” says your wrong mother after
Eli is—one hundred percent, without a doubt—vampiro, but he’s missing all the stereotypical traits. Is there room for him to exist in a world where everyone has already decided who and what he is?
The trees always spoke to Muta—until she lost herself in grief. Now, Karura Forest is silent; now, Nairobi beckons with noise and life. Can she find a way back to the whispering leaves?
Priya’s grandfather found Amarnath Noy, but the family’s ties to it weaken with each generation. Can Priya still find comfort there as she prepares for her father’s funeral and her upcoming wedding?
Skelly’s grandmother is teaching her to bake challah, an old recipe from Earth. But is preserving tradition enough when a portal to her grandmother’s world beckons?
For Grant Rutherford, work is both life and legacy—but when he dies a mere week after his wife, what he leaves behind will have metaphysical reverberations he could never have foreseen.
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