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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you for featuring The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune by Anna Bendiy in Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! This story is from our Issue 4.1 and you can read the full story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 23d

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

In "Closed Doors" by @marymiseonwu.bsky.social, when Kayla's mother is absorbed into the local flesh monolith, Kayla struggles with her identity and looks for a way in. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/clos...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

In "Island Getaway" by @soniafocke.bsky.social, Able Seaman Pol has a lot of problems - getting the cats fed, watered, and reporting for duty, and keeping tree roots from destroying the wiring, to name a few. Talking octopuses, though? That was new. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/isla...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

In "Toothpaste Feelings" by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, an alien-human symbiote tries to sort out his complicated feelings at his former friends' wedding. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/toot...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

In "The Moon’s Forests Burn All Your Life" by @cedarchromatic.bsky.social, a woman slowly smokes herself to death to protest an atrocity. When her cigarette supply runs low, a local kid grappling with both the protest and the atrocity brings her a cigar. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

In "Symbiote" @tchiuchu.bsky.social, writes about the things that become a part of you when you aren't paying attention, without your even realizing they're there. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/symb...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

In "Deep Down Inside: Parasitism and Symbiosis" by @premeemohamed.com, the essay introduces parasitism, symbiosis, and the ideas of naturalisation and invasion in the issue. www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com

This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 29d

The full audio story of "The Significance Cofactor"
by @hhpak.bsky.social is out now! The story was edited by @danaiwrites.bsky.social, & the audio was narrated by @cyrusrodas.bsky.social, with production by Jenelle DeCosta. Full audio version & story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Sep 10

The audio version of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova is finally live! This story was translated by Marianna Suleymanova & edited by Kanika Agrawal. The audio was narrated by Georgia Mckenzie & produced by Grayson Norman. Listen to the full audio story or read it here: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Celebrating 5 years of khōréō with essays & interviews! In "Missives from the Postapocalypse," M.J. Woods (ed. Isabella Kestermann) reflects on Larissa Lai’s talk on apocalypses, how marginalized groups have faced them, ways forward & key speculative fiction recs. www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Sep 6

The audio version of “möbius loop” by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is finally live! This story was edited by @danaiwrites.bsky.social. The audio was narrated by Valentín Ángel Fernández and produced by Jenelle DeCosta. Listen to the full audio story or read it here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/mobi...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our apologies for the delay, but we are excited to share the full audio version of “Sun’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Emanations” by Shiwei Zhou! This story was edited by Isabella Kestermann. The audio was narrated by @ishanikanetkar.bsky.social & produced by E.B. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/suns...

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's always a good day to read some @khoreo.bsky.social stories, but this is an extra EXTRA good time to do so, or get yourself a subscription if you can!

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · Aug 19

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

Isabella @isabellak.bsky.social · Aug 18

Had a great time at Worldcon meeting new and old faces! Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for letting me be your plus one! Glad we could trauma bond over our masthead being skipped again. I look forward to next year!

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Aug 6

As part of our 5 Year Anniversary Series we're sharing the latest essay, "These Marbles Were Never White," by @danaiwrites.bsky.social. Danai explores the whitewashing of Greek myths & the lack of representation of Greek and diaspora authors, writers, and actors: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Aug 4

We are so thrilled to share that “Umeboshi” by Rebecca Nakaba has been selected as a 2025 Fiction winner in Best of the Net! 🎉

Read the full story here: bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-... or listen to the audio edition on our website: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/umeb...

#bestofthenet

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 Submissions close tonight! 📣

We are open to short stories under 5,000 words, translations under 3,500 words, and flash fiction. We offer $0.10/word.

Send in your submissions now!

For more details on submissions, please visit our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions/

#speculativefiction

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Jul 24

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Jul 24

We're celebrating 5 years of khōréō by sharing essays & interviews!

In "Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda", @jdridges.bsky.social interviews two authors featured in khōréō's very first issue: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · Jul 22

"möbius loop" - my retrofuturist scifi short story about trauma, time traveling, and healing while being viciously unwell - is now free to read & listen to.

big thanks to @khoreo.bsky.social (and to @danaiwrites.bsky.social in particular) for fine-tuning this story & giving it a home.

möbius loop

On the day a space pod crashes in Quito, its nose buried in a flowery explosion of cobble, its legs bent, swooping wing-fins and webs of chrome tubing scorched, scarlet handprints dripping down the in...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you @undertow.bsky.social for featuring "Wayback" by Leslie What from our Issue 4.2 in your list of notable stories!

You can read "Wayback" in full here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/wayb...

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 10

Impossibly, I've made my selections for The Best Weird Fiction of the Year. Will announce the contents soon. Here, though, are 20 other stories I found quite notable, to be acknowledged in the book.

undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

Stories: The Sea, Like Glass
Caesura
Hair of the World
Their Wings as Powdery As Bones
The Beautiful Thing You Once Were
The Coalface
Way Up in De Middle of De Air
Plunged in the Years
Absent Below the Lip
Wayback
The Ferryman
The Dying Chorus
After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland
Brick City, Stick City, Straw City
Not All Your Bones Are Yours
Warmth
Shepherd Not Sheep
The Limner Wrings His Hands
Dissection of a Mermaid
Paraffin
Authors: Ainsley Hawthorn
Alice Hatcher
Aliya Whiteley
Avra Margariti
J. Ashley-Smith
Jack Klausner
Jamie Roballo
Jeffrey Ford
Charles Wilkinson
Leslie What
Lynda E. Rucker
Max D. Stanton
Max Franciscovich
Nika Murphy
Plangdi Neple
Sean Padraic Birnie
Simon Strantzas
Vajra Chandrasekera
Wailana Kalama
Will VanDenBerg

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Fantastic short fiction review from @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social on the Must Read Short Speculative Fiction from June!

The review features “The Swampmasters” by Joshua Lim from our latest Issue 5.2! ❤️‍🔥 reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 15

With all the excellent short fiction out there, where do you even start?

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got you covered with the must-read stories from June! I hope you like creepy roommates and humans morphing into- well, better find out for yourself...

reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: June 2025 - Reactor

A selection of June's best short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Jul 18

#SubmissionsCall #specfic #speculativefiction #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Jul 18

📣 Only 12 days left to send in your submissions! 📣

We are looking for short speculative fiction under 5,000 words, translations under 3,500 words, and flash fiction. We offer $0.10/word.

For more details on submissions, check out our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

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