Category: Year 5 Anniversary Series

Ai Jiang’s much-awaited A Palace Near the Wind, her sophomore novella to the Nebula award-winning Linghun (Dark Matter INK, 2023), released in 2025. Touted as

A few years ago, I wrote a comedic short story, “Four Self-Care Secrets for a Long and Happy Life,”1 about a 900-year-old fox spirit hawking

There is something inherently contradictory about a vampire—a creature thirsting for companionship as much as they thirst for blood. I always connected to this tension

Last year, sitting in a small dive bar in Bloomington, IN, I had the pleasure of hearing Larissa Lai speak on apocalypse. She had very

The year is 2025. Matt Damon wears a red broom on his head in his first promotional image as the protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming

(Note: These transcripts have been lightly edited for clarity and length.) Jeané D. Ridges speaks with two authors published in khōréō’s very first issue, Jennifer

The first time I wrote a haunting, I was living in a fog born of heartache. It was year one of the Pandemic, and I’d