Volume 001: 2024
dear earthlings,
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.
Fiction
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Alternate State presents: Monument in Ruins
Outings like this will eventually kill me, he thinks.
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Anastasia Canary and Her Paranormal Lovers
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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Leap
“The sea is mourning.” He nods and keeps walking. My breath catches in my throat.
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Seeds
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?
Nonfiction
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Interview: Author Premee Mohamed
“And what is fiction, after all, but continuous efforts to understand human behaviour?”
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Something Leftover: Hope, Salvage, and What We Owe Each Other
What do we owe each other? We are currently in the midst of a world crumbling around us.
Poetry
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Borne of Moss and Rain
In a Forest —
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Dedication
When I was little my mother told me dragonflies were fairies.
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I Beat My With Dragonwings
I beat with my dragonwings against my earthmother asking why?
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Spock, After “A Few” Whiskeys
Under the present conditions, captains’ oak seaboards bounded under standard issue boots like dogs on leash.
The Kismet Magazine 