Heartlines Spec, Issue 4, Spring 2024

by Heartlines Spec, Jess Cho, Casey Aimer

The fourth issue of Heartlines Spec provides glimpses into how characters relate within a few moments in time. These stories, poems, and essays focus on long-term relationships—be they between friends, lovers, family or someone else entirely—and examine how connections can change or grow against a much longer timeline.

Editorial by Jess Cho

Short Fiction
Blue Sunset by lae astra
Starlight by R.H. Berry
And When She Shatters by Kerry C. Byrne
Trapped in this Body, I Wait for You by Akis Linardos
Dandelion Lights by Lillian Lu
The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life by Devin Miller

Poetry
The Milky Way Comforts Its Humans by Casey Aimer
A Renegade's Diary Entry in a Debris Field by Martins Deep
The Incomplete Museum of You by Angel Leal
Trinary by Amabilis O'Hara
Mrs. Taffety Politely Answers The Door by C.C. Rayne

Non-Fiction
Cryptids of Ottawa by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
The Family You Lost Before You Had This Name by A.J. Van Belle

Heartlines Spec is an online speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best. Issues are released three times a year.

106 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 30, 2024