A Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy. Estd. 2015.
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FICTION, POETRY & MORE
May Chong on Managing the Scorching Mess of Social Media
A manticore is saddled with managing the scorching mess of a social media page her boss has managed to get himself involved in
I. S. Heynen on Building a Post-Apocalyptic World Where a Company of Assassins Reigns Supreme
The idea of a government trying to cut down on illegal acts of violence by legalizing them within strict parameters deeply spooked me.
Glimmerglimpse
when she tells you her secrets and desires / and whispers promises as the sun extinguishes / and the city’s luminance seeps into her skin
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth is wonderful, to say the least. I was not expecting to feel as much as I did, going into this book. Gideon and Harrow made me laugh almost every page, which I did not expect from a book about necromancers; and they made me bawl my eyes out by the end. Go read the book, you won’t be disappointed.
Lorenzo Latrofa & Massimiliano di Lauro on Animating the Story of Migration & Exile
Between 1890 and 1970, it is estimated that around 30 to 40 million Italians left to seek their fortune around the world. But what seems to have been completely forgotten is that the emigration stories of today and yesterday have many points in common.
Litmus
I am but an inconspicuous bubble, / at the tip of this burette. / failing all your titrations, / as I grow/ towards your eyes, / speck by speck.
The Shuttle Took Off / और यान उड़ गया
From the far-off lands, / arrived they / by the shuttles so swift, / more than / the feet of light / anxious, sick and shaken / all they had, was / battle and brutality / ego and guile / and mushroom clouds / to fight.
Crossing the Desert with Malena Salazar Maciá
“The Kiss of the Water” tells the story of Lima, a woman in search of water in the desert. It has to be purified water, but this is controlled by the Daonais, or masters who manage large corporations. Desperate, Lima is willing to do anything to get what she needs.
America Under Siege: Creating An Alternate History with Dean A Brink
“Flower Arranging at the End of the Japanese Empire” explores what it might have been like to live as a youth during the Japanese Empire if it had lasted into our present, which became its last days.
tetrahedral edifices of a sticky rice realm
this is where the dissidents come to rest, here the holy temple / that lets them all have what’s coming to them, for better or for worse—but i am not dead…