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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• 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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• Borne of Moss and Rain

  Yale Bowman

  Poetry

  1–2 minutes

  320 words

  In a Forest —

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• Letter from the Editor

  M.J. Woods

  Dark Matter

  3–4 minutes

  625 words

  We would like to express our gratitude to having every one of you here sharing this space with us, participating in the community we hope to foster with these imagined futures.

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• Issue Welcome

  The Kismet Magazine

  Dark Matter

  3–4 minutes

  682 words

  Welcome to the first Volume of The Kismet Magazine!

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