OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 3 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, four poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. Within these pages, you'll swim with hungry leviathans, journey to the grave of the last vampire, work miracles in hospital basements… and explore questions of duty and desire.FICTIONOne Floor, One Pho...

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 1 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, five poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. These pieces will carry you from royal courts to glittering starships, from roadside gas stations to palaces made of glass, and from heartbreak to possibility.FICTIONThis Is Not Your Extinction Event – Elena Si...

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 2 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, six poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. These pieces feature tiger princesses and pop stars, sword-wielding students and spacefaring scientists, cyborgs and witches—and families of all kinds.FICTIONWe Who Have Been Raised by Tigers – P.V. Vamsidhar

Issue Five is filled with dreamy apocalypses, unreliable narrators, galaxy brains, and shapeshifting. The stories and poetry in this issue all have a thread of softness running through them. These pieces are rooted in devotion; to a person, to a god, to a fight. Within these works, people are transforming themselves, becoming something or someone new because of their relationships. There may be anger or rage, but you can’t evoke volatile emotions without a yearning for something underneath...

Kael Morven wasn't supposed to survive the mining accident. He definitely wasn't supposed to stop a falling crane with magic he didn't know he had.When recruiters from the Ashen Academy arrive offering admission and enough gold to pay his mother's debts, Kael knows the offer is too good to be true. He's right. The Academy's gleaming halls hide a brutal hierarchy where common-born students are assigned to the lowest tier, given the worst rooms, and reminded daily that they don't bel...

BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • BOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTIONA celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor’s door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this masterful essay, told in wise and luminous prose that pushes back the dark.

Natalie Wee is a queer creator. She is the author of Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (San Press, 2021) and Beast at Every Threshold (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022). Her work was named first runner-up for the 2020 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, winner of the 2019 Blue Mesa Review Summer Contest for poetry, and a Best of the Net finalist. Born in Singapore to Malaysian parents, Natalie is currently a settler in Tkaronto and was part of Project 40 Collective, a Tkaronto-based pan-...

In Kemi Ashing-Giwa's stunning post-apocalyptic short story, "Fruiting Bodies", a Tor.com Original, an alien fungal infection has ravaged a faraway planet, turning all but six of the colonists into ravenous alarinkiri.Inyama, a mycologist, is her species’ last hope. But it’s not expertise her fellow survivors want from her.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The mostly free-verse poetry in this collection relates to life's journey and the stops we make along the way. It contains poetry regarding the age-old subject of love in its many forms, desire, death is touched upon, appreciation for life's various adventures and some general story-telling. It is the telling of these moments through the author's very particular positioning and perspective, and it is that perspective that makes each piece within the collection special, interesting, and exc...

This thirteenth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-four stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Leah Cypess, John Kessel, Yoon Ha Lee, Naomi Kritzer, Sarah Langan, Ken Liu, Annalee Newitz, Sarah Pinsker, Sofia Samatar, Michael Swanwick, Tade Thompson, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Uncanny, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best ...

A retelling of the story of Icarus, a boy who loved the sun enough to fall for it.

The stories and poems in Issue 10 take place in the grey area between worlds. The line between reality and the speculative becomes blurred as characters dive into the ocean, robots tell stories, and a Sasquatch searches for a friend. Death and family are themes throughout, as characters grieve absences or choose to build a new structure.SHORT FICTIONThe Impossibility of Fall Prevention by Pauline Barmby,Cradle Root Rot by Isla LaderThe Three...