Volume 001: 2024

• Special Thanks

  The Kismet Magazine

  Dark Matter

  1–2 minutes

  195 words

  Welcome to the first Volume of The Kismet Magazine!

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• Interview: Author Premee Mohamed

  The Kismet Magazine

  Interview

  6–9 minutes

  1,419 words

  “And what is fiction, after all, but continuous efforts to understand human behaviour?”

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• Alternate State presents: Monument in Ruins

  N.B.

  Fiction

  19–28 minutes

  4,433 words

  Outings like this will eventually kill me, he thinks.

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• Something Leftover: Hope, Salvage, and What We Owe Each Other

  M.J. Woods

  Essay

  20–30 minutes

  4,756 words

  What do we owe each other? We are currently in the midst of a world crumbling around us.

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• Seeds

  Pamela Zero

  Fiction

  5–8 minutes

  1,267 words

  This year was Wrr’s first pilgrimage. It was worried. What if it got lost? What if it got hit by one of the lumpy beings?

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• I Beat With My Dragonwings

  Marie Deer

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  175 words

  I beat with my dragonwings against my earthmother asking why?

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• Leap

  Pamela Zero

  Fiction

  5–7 minutes

  1,102 words

  “The sea is mourning.” He nods and keeps walking.  My breath catches in my throat.

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• Dedication

  Nathalie Friederich

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  144 words

  When I was little my mother told me dragonflies were fairies.

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• Anastasia Canary and Her Paranormal Lovers

  David Saltos Lee

  Fiction

  11–16 minutes

  2,585 words

  They took me to their ship two weeks after my niece’s third birthday. I’m not sure if it’s still a UFO when it doesn’t go anywhere.

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• Spock, After “A Few” Whiskeys

  Sarah Johnson LaBarbera

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  281 words

  Under the present conditions, captains’ oak seaboards bounded under standard issue boots like dogs on leash.

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