khōréō, Volume 3, Issue 4

khōréō

by Aleksandra Hill (Editor), Diana Dima (Contributor), Sofia Ezdina (Contributor)

khoreo magazine’s Volume 3, Issue 4. Originally published January 15, 2024. Includes thirteen(!) fantastic flash stories by:

”Seven Recipes for the Crossing” by Diana Dima
”Ghost and the Piano” by Sofia Ezdina
”Mad Studies” by [sarah] Cavar
”When We Make It to Bet-Zelem” by Louis Evans
”Trees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My Grief” by Rukman Ragas
”Thank God Things Are Different Now” by Desiree Winns
”Homeland in Verse” by Naomi Day
”The Ancestors Tell You What to Do When Your Teenage Daughter Is Given a Cursed Wolf Skin from God and Becomes a Mardagayl” by Jolie Toomajan
”Blue Cube” by Prema Arasu
”RAIN FIRE CLOUD” by Caroline Hung
”Rhythms of the Resonant Revolution” by Rodrigo Culagovski
”The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle” by L.M. Guay
”Pink Bird, War Sun” by Tania Chen
Cover and spot art created by Ngianhormua Yang

78 pages, ebook

First published January 15, 2024

About the author

Aleksandra Hill is a Polish-Canadian speculative fiction writer and the founder of khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. She earned an MFA at the New School in Fiction and Non-Fiction writing and is an alumna of the Odyssey Writers Workshop. In past lives, she earned a Ph.D. in computational biology and worked as a management consultant and a product manager.

Reviews

[David H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This issue of khōréō had 13 stories, though a few of them are ones I might classified as prose poems. This was the first time I'd read an issue of this magazine, and I thought it was interesting! Though it didn't have any introductory material, the blurb indicates this was a flash fiction issue. My favorite stories were Louis Evans's "When We Make It to Bet-Zelem" and Rukman Ragas's "Trees Can Have My Soul; In Return, Let Me Have My Grief," though several others were good as well.