A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging
Couch People
A darkly comic descent into Arkansas’s surreal criminal underworld through the eyes of a hapless, debt‑ridden hypochondriac
Weirdly Tuned Antennae
A postimperialist future shaped by revolutionary struggle and healing, where plant-based technology reshapes sovereignty and intimacy
Marimo, Mon Amour
A technocratic collapse erases an obscure poet from existence, but she and her pet moss ball refuse to disappear
Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him
A haunting reimagining of Billy the Kid — myth, violence, and regret collide in a lyrical coming-of-age story woven with history, legend, and the omnipresence of birds
Afterlife
A kaleidoscopic meditation on grief, memory, and the uncanny, where dreams, histories, and forgotten encyclopedias blur the line between life and afterlife
Thanatographies
A haunting, poetic excavation of memory, the nocturnal imagination, and a search for new forms of language to act upon legacies of violence and erasure