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Letter from the Editors
Zhui Ning Chang, Kanika Agrawal, Isabella Kestermann, and Danai Christopoulou

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

Banquet for All!
jesutomisin ipinmoye

Letters from Light’s End
Phoenix Alexander

The Tale of Afonso
Dea Anugrah
Translated by Annie Tucker

In My Time of Dreaming
Megan Chee

Non-Fiction
Art

Cover: Gift of the Pari
Niky Motekallem

Previously Published

Category: Fiction

Fiction

Intersected Sky

Ebsa was running late, and Demetri, tired of watching the bitter clouds of his breath, had just about given up on her. Like one might

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Fiction

RAIN FIRE CLOUD

On the seven hundredth Day of Founding, the Imperial Sun Palaces open their gates for a joyous celebration, broadcasted live to every corner of the

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Fiction

Pink Bird, War Sun

War came to my window in the form of a little red bird. Beak the colour of coagulated rust, feathers dipped in the fresh crimson

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Fiction

Blue Cube

The abandoned submersible Blue Cube lies in the Eastern Pool of Challenger Deep, almost eleven kilometres below sea level. The seafloor is far from the

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Fiction

Ghost and the Piano

Nobody approved of Alexander Ivanovich Villuan’s idea to adopt that urchin. The renowned pianist caught her stealing from his carriage—all eyes, hollow face, no name,

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Fiction

Homeland in Verse

You find the first verse of homeland encased in the abdomen of a fellow gym-goer. She is aggressively flirty as she pokes a finger through

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