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01 · The Archive
Fiction
Short stories and novellas from the speculative edges of the real.
88 works
2016–2022
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Issue 1 · Inaugural Issue
— March 2016
Resurrection Points
Usman T. Malik
Issue 1
Braveheart’s Homecoming
Dilman Dila
Issue 1
Issue 2 · Subcontinental Speculations
— April 2016
Valley of Tears
Rabi Thapa
Issue 2
Sanjeev and Robotwallah
Ian McDonald
Issue 2
The Adventure
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
Issue 2
Issue 3 · Futures Across Borders
— May 2016
Theodora Goss: Her Mother's Ghosts
Theodora Goss
Issue 3
Oliver Buckram: Presidential Cryptotrivia
Oliver Buckram
Issue 3
Issue 4 · Monsoon Cosmologies
— June 2016
Vajra Chandrasekera: Caul
Vajra Chandrasekera
Issue 4
Abhishek Bhatt: Choose Your Killer
Abhishek Bhatt
Issue 4
Issue 5-6 · The Asian SF Double Issue
— July/August 2016
Priya Sharma: Egg
Priya Sharma
Issue 5-6
Ng Yi-Sheng: No Other City
Ng Yi-Sheng
Issue 5-6
Mark James Russell: Samjogo and the Vengeful Stories
Mark James Russell
Issue 5-6
Isha Karki: Rooting
Isha Karki
Issue 5-6
Anil Menon: Shit Flower
Anil Menon
Issue 5-6
Dean Francis Alfar: The New Daughter
Dean Francis Alfar
Issue 5-6
David S. Golding: Give and Receive
David S. Golding
Issue 5-6
Amal Singh: Rudali
Amal Singh
Issue 5-6
Indra Das: Excerpt from The Devourers
Indrapramit Das
Issue 5-6
Issue 7 · Cosmic Sociology
— January–March 2017
The Twelve Rules of Etiquette at Miss Firebird’s School for Girls
Gwendolyn Kiste
Issue 7
Axes on Viola
Jaroslav Mostecky
Issue 7
La Gorda and the City of Silver
Sabrina Vourvoulias
Issue 7
American Moat
Carlos Hernandez
Issue 7
Winds That Stir Vermilion Sands
David Bowles
Issue 7
Gringos
Ernest Hogan
Issue 7
Issue 8 · Visual Arts Special
— May 2017
The Tailings
Brian Daniel Green & Florita Gunasekara
Issue 8
Ruin Marble
Arkady Martine
Issue 8
Champollion’s Foot
Haris A. Durrani
Issue 8
Datsue-Ba
Eliza Chan & Kieran Walsh
Issue 8
Issue 9 · New Cartographies
— September 2017
Stories We Carry On The Back Of The Night
Jasper Sanchez
Issue 9
Excerpts: Half of What I Say
Anil Menon
Issue 9
Partition
Tehseen Baweja
Issue 9
Blonde
Priya Sharma
Issue 9
Thorns In My Throat
Shveta Thakrar
Issue 9
The Mountain
Vandana Singh
Issue 9
Binaries
S.B. Divya
Issue 9
Five Lessons in the Fattening Room
Khalidah Muhammad Ali
Issue 9
Hide
Mahesh Raman
Issue 9
Excerpts: Hammer in the Dark
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Issue 9
The Universal Library
Erik Born
Issue 9
Issue 10 · Tenth Milestone Edition
— September 2018
A Time Called L’apatia
Sarah M. Prindle
Issue 10
Crisis
Damien Krsteski
Issue 10
Sita’s Descent
Indrapramit Das
Issue 10
Lopamudra’s Wedding
Bhushita Vasistha
Issue 10
I, Lilli Man
Rahad Abir
Issue 10
The Glass-Toothed Wolf
Dennis Mombauer
Issue 10
Tigerflies or The City of the Night
Alexandra Seidel
Issue 10
Dessert Heads
Rajendra Shepherd
Issue 10
Issue 11 · Borderline Realities
— December 2018
On the Seventh Day
Toshiya Kamei & Madruga
Issue 11
Domesticated
Bastek
Issue 11
The Devil Buys Us Cheap and the Devil Buys in Bulk
Matthew Bennardo
Issue 11
The Domovoi
Margariti
Issue 11
No Folly of the Beast
W. Wallis
Issue 11
The Great Wall of America
D. A. Hewitt
Issue 11
Issue 12 · Diaspora Currents
— April 2019
The Kiss of the Water
Malena Salazar Maciá & Toshiya Kamei
Issue 12
The Carnival of Human Nature
Dennis Mombauer
Issue 12
The Executioner General
Balasa
Issue 12
Sonya, Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the Telephone
I. S. Heynen
Issue 12
Flower Arranging at the End of the Japanese Empire
Dean A. Brink
Issue 12
Upshot
Drema Deòraich
Issue 12
The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima
Deborah L. Davitt
Issue 12
Issue 13 · Planetary Entanglements
— September 2019
The Breaking
Vanessa Fogg
Issue 13
Sparrow
Yilin Wang
Issue 13
Young Witch, Old Witch
H. Pueyo
Issue 13
Strange Recollections of Brook Farm
H. Frankel
Issue 13
Haunted Castle on the Midway
D. J. W. Munro
Issue 13
Sorcerers’ Highway
Theodore Singer
Issue 13
Mid-Term Ecolit Examination Paper
P. Chabria
Issue 13
Issue 14 · The Solitary Sky
— June 2020
As Dark As Hunger
S. Qiouyi Lu
Issue 14
Your Dinner
Derek Anderson
Issue 14
Things Not to Say
Amy Collini
Issue 14
The Trial of Tesslin VanGlaise
Chloe Agar
Issue 14
The Call to Neigh
Daniel McKay
Issue 14
Mother’s Blood
Elijah Petty
Issue 14
Iterations
Christian Monson
Issue 14
Blood Relations
J. Check
Issue 14
Issue 15 · Re-Emergence
— December 2020
The Knowing
Neelu Singh
Issue 15
Our Bodies Sing the Stars
Carlos Norcia
Issue 15
Of Castles and Oceans
Nicole Tanquary
Issue 15
Different Shores
David Dale H
Issue 15
Children Between Lines
Soham Guha
Issue 15
Arisudan
Rimi B. Chatterjee
Issue 15
Issue 16 · Planet Democracy
— July 2022
Zen and the Art of Gaia Maintenance
Jetse de Vries
Issue 16
Trucker
Buzz Dixon
Issue 16
Milkman
Eve Morton
Issue 16
This is My Home
Mark Rivett
Issue 16
Harefoot Express
Paulo da Costa
Issue 16
The Rhythms of the World
Johnny Caputo
Issue 16
The Ones Who Scream America
Brian Bagnall
Issue 16