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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
Symbiote
T. Chiu-Chu
The Moon’s Forests Burn All Your Life
brandon brown
Toothpaste Feelings
Sharang Biswas
Island Getaway
Sonia Focke
Closed Doors
Mary Miseon Wu
Deep Down Inside: Parasitism and Symbiosis Premee Mohamed
Cover: Issue 5.3
Jocelyn Short
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
You’re an ant. “I’m not an ant!” Just . . . play along for a minute, all right? You’re an ant, a Lasius umbratus worker,
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
If you’ve never had thin-sliced pork chops fried in ketchup, trust me—you’re not missing out. Sweet-and-sour pork is one of my brother’s favorite dishes, as
Dark, small, withered, my mother’s fingers curve around the half onion. With her other hand she wields her knife and dices the onion into bits
So, I’m still perusing Irene Kuo’s Key to Chinese Cooking, and along the way, I happened on a chapter that talked about Asian noodles and
My first encounter with a work of desi science fiction was very much by accident. During my undergraduate studies at the Department of English at
