"Memories of Memories Lost" by Mahmud El Sayed is a story about the price of the things we choose to forget. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Mahmud El Sayed, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Karim Kronfli and produced by Lian...
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An all-but-forgotten demigod bets everything on one last gambit to secure his future before he fades from existence. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by Guan Un, edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio edition read by Guan Un, edited by Lian Xia Rose, with...
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For Grant Rutherford, work is both life and legacy — but when he dies a mere week after his wife, what he leaves behind will have metaphysical reverberations he could never have foreseen. Content warnings: Grief, medicalized illness, death of a loved one...
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A mother, left behind on Earth, receives a birthday card from her son, who is worlds away. How much time do we have together with the ones we love, especially when they grow up and away? How much is remaining? Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by...
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In "Kwong's Bath" by Angela Liu, Kwong is visited by the ghosts of the people she has trouble letting go. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Angela Liu, edited by Sachiko Ragosta. Audio edition read by Lauren Kong, with casting and production by...
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"Umeboshi" by Rebecca Nakaba is an exploration of what it means to be connected through heritage—and chain email. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Rebecca Nakaba, edited by Sachiko Ragosta. Audio edition read by Heidi Tabing, with sound design by...
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A traumatized time traveler keeps traveling back to his past to punish his younger self. Over multiple loops, he learns to forgive himself. Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Samir Sirk Morató, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by...
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A transnational adoptee is haunted by the ghost of his birth mother. Content warnings: Self-harm, suicidal ideation Copyright © 2025 khōréō magazine. Story by Woody Dismukes, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Sam Cavalcanti, with...
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A deluxe riverboat welcomes the galaxy's wealthiest tourists to the drought-ridden Amazon — but no one's seen her mysterious captain. "The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle" is a flash exploration of colonization and survival. Content warnings:...
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Eli is—one hundred percent, without a doubt—vampiro, but he's missing all the stereotypical traits. Is there room for him to exist in a world where everyone has already decided who and what he is? Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by K. Victoria...
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"For Future Generations" by Rachel Gutin What do terrestrial traditions mean when you have to leave the only world you've ever known? This contemplative sci-fi explores the choices a rabbi must make for her congregation. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021....
An alien-human symbiote tries to sort out complicated feelings at his former friends' wedding. Content warnings: Brief mention of suicide Copyright © 2025 khōréō magazine. Story by Sharang Biswas, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Eli...
Child, parent, and grandparent: each stands at a threshold in "Unname Me at the Altar" by Ashaye Brown, a tender and brutal story of unbreakable bonds and unspeakable loss. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by Ashaye Brown, edited by Kanika Agrawal....
When her mother is absorbed into the local flesh monolith, Kayla struggles with her identity and looks for a way in. Content warnings: Violence, nudity, racism/discrimination, body horror Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Mary Miseon Wu, edited by...
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Able Seaman Pol has a lot of problems — getting the cats fed, watered, and reporting for duty, keeping tree roots from destroying the wiring, the monkeys out of the pantry and the mines from exploding on deck. Talking octopuses, though? That was new....
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A woman slowly smokes herself to death to protest an atrocity. When her cigarette supply runs low, a local kid grappling with both the protest and the atrocity brings her a cigar. Content warnings: Self-harm (smoking), references to genocide, a dead body,...
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A man sets out on a voyage accompanied by his fiancée's right arm. Content warnings: Violence (graphic), threat of bodily harm, covert misogyny Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Natalia Theodoridou, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition...
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Deerbreed blogger Kirill wants to tell the story of worldwide human-animal transformations, but the Flock is calling to him. Content warnings: Classism, animal cruelty, body horror This piece is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the novel Skin and Hide....
A woman returns to burn the last of her mother's body, in the wake of her mother's death — an effort to escape a dark entity that has sealed itself to the bones of three generations of Thai women. Content warnings: Racism, ageism, self-harm, blood,...
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A young scribe joins a voyage to hunt sea creatures in waters that once belonged to the feared Northerners, but the truth behind the Northern myths is more complex than they first believed. Content warnings: Animal cruelty and death, use of the r-word...
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In a post-apocalyptic world, a mother accidentally becomes a leader and a god. Content warnings: Death of a spouse, natural disasters, references to pre-disaster ableism Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by K. Lynn Harrison, edited by Danai...
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When the real world becomes unbearable, what would you sacrifice for the chance to live in a dream? Content warnings: Euthanasia, death and dying, implied eugenics Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Megan Chee, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio...
Aliens who share distant human ancestors with Earthlings arrive on Earth seeking refuge, and their African lineage run into issues with the US government. Content warnings: Racism, genocide Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Chris Campbell, edited by...
Deb is dead set on getting a pedicure, now, damn anyone else's time! But the Universe has its own plans, and she's not the only VIP to walk through the doors of SALON LA BELLE, eager to have her wish granted. Content warnings: Blood, violence, death,...
In New Hope City, an indentured clone comes out as trans. People have opinions about it. Content warnings: Transphobia (including misgendering), abuse, implied forced servitude, implied climate disaster Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Leon Tomova,...
In an RPG game, a Black avatar repeatedly attempts to survive an encounter with the police. Content warnings: Violence, death, racism, hateful language, xenophobia Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by KÁNYIN Olorunnisola, edited by Isabella Kestermann....
A boy walks into an art exhibit and steals a sex doll on display. It doesn't go anywhere the doll expects. Content warnings: Body horror described in detail Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Kawai Shen, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read...
In 2102, Michi goes undercover as a maid for a hacking job, while in 2030, Ryo sells his appearance to a tech company. Their lives intersect to expose the dirty laundry of neo-feudal futuristic Japanese elite society. Content warnings: Classism, injustice...
A storyteller in the distant future shows the reader different vantage points, in hopes they might "see" the web of connections between past and future, reader and story, responsibility and joy. Content warnings: Acknowledgement of genocide, animal harm...
Hollywood actor Hendrick lives through a curated trauma experience to become Greek enough for a role. But how much will it cost him? Content warnings: Suicide, torture simulation, cultural appropriation Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Christos...
An imprisoned god is bound to the trees of an ancient swamp, until one day someone comes looking. Content warnings: Violence, body horror Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Natasha King, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Suzie Rai and...
A young paramedic defies a military summons by heading into the forest, where she gradually builds a new home and becomes something more than human. Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Evgenia Nekrasova, translated from Russian by Marianna Suleymanova...
Dr. Sun, the solo practitioner of an extraordinary medical specialty, is asked to save one last patient by the protege who abandoned her. Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Shiwei Zhou, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Ishani...
A father bumbles his way through family domesticities as he makes his way to the airport. His children do not know he is not their father at all, but a stranger with a gruesome past, hard-earned advice, and a primal longing for a stolen life. Copyright...
In Japanese-occupied Malaya, an older Chinese immigrant reflects on his arrival to this land in his youth and embarks on a daring rescue. Content warnings: Blood Copyright © 2025 khōréō magazine. Story by Joshua Lim, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio...
When a lonely mountain is visited by a wonderbird, she learns about the far-away White City, and sets out on an unlikely journey. Copyright © 2025 khōréō magazine. Story by Diana Dima, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Kat Kourbeti, with...
"Wax and Full Circles" is the quiet story of a couple navigating life where one of them is a werewolf. Content warnings: Death, animal death, grief Copyright © 2025 khōréō magazine. Story by Stefani Cox, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by...
It's about the things that become a part of you when you aren't paying attention, without your even realizing they're there. Copyright © 2025 khōréō magazine. Story by T. Chiu-Chu, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by D Casellian, with...
Feng, once indentured to the university in return for her studies, accompanies the Professor who bought her debt to the mountains. There, they expect to find a rare and tragic treasure: a dead dragon. This is Part 2 of "Dragonsworn" by L. Chan, the first...
In the near future, the corpse inside the abandoned deep-sea submersible Blue Cube becomes another landmark of the Challenger Deep. Content warning: Mentions of death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Prema Arasu, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio...
A ghost of the dead daughter visits the musician every night. Together, they compose their masterpiece of grief. Content warning: Death of a child Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Sofia Ezdina, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Olga...
An unnamed narrator takes an unusual journey home. "Homeland in Verse" by Naomi Day explores loss both, individual and diasporic, and what it means to arrive home when home is a concept you've forgotten. Content warning: Intensive body modification...
Countryboy T loses their home after the deaths of their parents. Luckily, the cats have been in charge all along. Content warnings: Institutionalization, sanism, ableism, family death, animal death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by [sarah] Cavar,...
The unsettling arrival of war and how hope in tales pass from generation to generation. Content warnings: War, orphans, implied trauma due to armed conflict, death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Tania Chen, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio...
Come one, come all! Witness the fall of a despot alongside the glorious rebirth of one heavenly beast in "RAIN FIRE CLOUD" by Caroline Hung. Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Caroline Hung , edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Sam Yeow,...
The defiant notes of a bass guitar ignite a city's fight against tyrants through the raw magic of music. Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Rodrigo Culagovski, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Sam Cavalcanti and produced by Lian Xia...
A daughter living overseas visits her mother. Their time is counted in recipes, familiar yet growing ever stranger. Content warning: Death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Diana Dima, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio edition read by Rebecca Jensen...
Years after the terrifying dictator of a small island nation has been deposed, a native bartender tells his side of history to an unsuspecting tourist. Content warning: Mentions of death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Desiree Winns, edited by...
In Armenian folklore, all werewolves are women. Cursed, punished, feared, shunned. But that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, does it, dear? Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Jolie Toomajan, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio edition read by...
"Trees Can Have My Soul; In Return, Let Me Have My Grief" asks what a mother tongue is when survival requires assimilation. Content warnings: Mild body horror, grief, death of a parental figure, racism Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Rukman Ragas,...
"When We Make it to Bet-Zelem" is a profound meditation on hope and what it means to seek something that may no longer exist. Content warnings: War, violence, starvation, mass killing, animal death, displaced persons Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story...
After learning the true history of her land, a young woman returns to her isolated hometown to dispel the propaganda they were told. "Child's Tongue" interrogates our silences and complicity in colonial narratives. Content warnings: Sexual harassment,...
An endless beam of light arrives and splits the sky. In the turmoil following the resulting global EMP, aging immigrant Demetri's family collapses and he must grapple for a place in a shattered world. Content warnings: References to the death of a child...
The Wolf is Piroska's sister, and they play with bombs in the backyard of their new home. Is Piroska wolf enough to survive? Content warnings: Threat of violence, imagined bodily injury Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Varju Izzy, edited by Kanika...
A family living under oppression hides their magic in a song passed down the generations. Take Up Thy Mother's Song is a story about when to choose survival and when to fight back, and when these are one and the same. Content warnings: Graphic violence,...
What happens when you come home and home is in pieces, and everyone is gone? Here, unruly spirits and old memories are dredged up in this act of reclaiming and healing. Content warnings: Depictions of the aftermath of war, indirect mentions of death...
Someone has to be the best at something, and when a new technology begets a new sport, it may as well be her. Content warnings: Knife violence, blood, death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by E. A. Xiong, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition...
Peace (Filipino, Scorpio, middle child) encounters Leon, a shapeshifter. Leon's inability to commit to one form challenges Peace's concept of identity during a time when her professional reputation and cultural authenticity have come into question. Content...
A young scientist struggles to find purpose in life after being left behind by those fleeing a post-apocalyptic Earth. Content warnings: Suicide and suicidal ideation, death, and animal death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Madeleine Vigneron,...
A Croat refugee comes to terms with his trauma through studying metaphorical maps to his own lostness. Content warnings: Graphic wartime violence and implied torture, death of friends and strangers, hateful language directed at ethnic groups, mental...
A family vacation in the mountains takes a weird turn when they are forced to choose what to bring and what to leave behind. Content warnings: Violence, war, animal cruelty, death, intergenerational trauma Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Leslie...
"A Little Like Sap, a Bit Like a Tree" by Natalia Theodoridou is a story about a transmasc nursing birds, based on true events. Content warnings: Blood, breastfeeding, loss of a child (not shown) Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Natalia...
Nuran struggles with her mental health and an abusive household. Is escape possible with a voice down the well? Content warnings: Mental Illness, death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Esra Kahya, translated from Turkish by Aysel K. Basci, edited...
"In the Age of Fire" by Ana Rüsche follows the journey of a boy from Panama to the United States, through the immigration crisis and the climate crisis, to meet creatures from future generations in the caldera of a volcano. Content warnings: Discrimination...
Rival figure skaters use dangerous body modification technology to outperform each other in the rink. Content warnings: Racism Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Claire Jia-Wen, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Lauren Choo and...
By day, Niki serves coffee and tsoureki — but at night she is haunted by a mysterious song she can't get out of her head. "Bride of the Gulf" by Danai Christopoulou explores love and loss through the lens of the mythological and mundane. Copyright khōréō...
Join us on a vessel taking its passengers far beyond Earth, using an unconventional source to help power its journey. "Mothership Connection" by Melissa A. Watkins is a glorious story about Black joy and kinship. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by...
In "Rattlers" by D.K. Lawhorn, dance and music mark the end of exile for two former outcasts once betrayed and hunted by the same allies who now seek to make amends. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by D.K. Lawhorn , edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio...
"The Ballad of the Octopus" by Simo Srinivas is a haunting, luscious tale of an octopus who loses an arm to a man, who in turn devours it, hopelessly intertwining their lives and existences. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Simo Srinivas , edited...
You've been in this club before, because you've been in a thousand like it. Each night a loop. Except this one is too familiar—and not quite right. Read about love and loss on the dance floor in "This Is What You Came For" by Phong Quan. Copyright khōréō...
Tina's life is a series of dominos falling toward the creation of the ultimate invention—with unforeseen consequences. Allison King's "Tina Yu and the Karaoke Time Machine" is a meditation on the power and fragility of music, memory, and family. Content...
In April, the dead return to spend brief moments with their loved ones. But what happens if the one you love doesn't come back? "In April, the Dead" by Natalia Theodoridou is a touching flash story about loss and family. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023....
"The Field Guide for Next Time" by Rae Mariz is a nonlinear tapestry of a story and the most experimental piece that khōréō has published to date. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Rae Mariz , edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio edition read by Carolina...
How do you communicate in a foreign land, when the only language those living speak is one of happiness? What of the days you feel lonely, or sad, or—something else? "The Land of Happiness" by Laura Wang is an exploration of immigration and finding both...
You wake up. You do your job. You eat. You speak to no one. Nothing ever changes about life here in K— — until, suddenly, it does. "The Shadow and the Light" by Su-Yee Lin is a haunting story about stagnation and self-preservation and solitude. Copyright...
"Come Back, Crocodile Bird" by M.S. Dean follows the story of Arnaz, navigating a flooded world that leaves her both stuck in the past and trying to move forward. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by M.S. Dean, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition...
"Sartor" by Tanvir Ahmed is a story about stories, about endings and beginnings, about the telling and the listening. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Tanvir Ahmed, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Rashmi Rustagi and produced by...
"The Abode of the Palms" by Karim Kattan is a story of the desert and jinn, of siblings and family and wishes, and what it means to be born second. Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Karim Kattan, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by...
Feng, once indentured to the university in return for her studies, accompanies the Professor who bought her debt to the mountains. There, they expect to find a rare and tragic treasure: a dead dragon. This is Part 1 of "Dragonsworn" by L. Chan, the first...
A standalone excerpt from a novel-in-progress, "The Blue Glow" is set in Hiroshima in 1945, in the aftermath of the atomic bomb. Sen, a sixteen-year-old suicide pilot who lived, returns to his home city, where gods now crouch disheveled among the...
Ni Darti is determined to curse Herman Willem Daendels, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, for the death of her son. But a shaman cannot curse someone he does not know—and so, Ni Darti embarks on a quest to learn what she can of the colonizer....
A teenage girl's mother makes the best samosas in the world, but all is not as it seems. "My Mother's Samosas" by Malavika Praseed is a coming of age story about mixed-race identity, family conflict, and flawed perspectives. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022....
A young woman safeguards her birth mother's name: a string of pearls she carries in her mouth. This story explores transracial adoption and the intangible ways in which we anchor ourselves to identity. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Read by Sam...
"Review for: Izakaya Tanuki" is a magical slice-of-life tale about yearning for that special dish from a home you can't return to, told in the form of a restaurant review. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Read by Rue Dickey, Produced and Edited by Lian Xia...
When you follow your dreams into the stars, there are places—and people—you must leave behind. "Sorry We Missed You!" is a touching meditation on family, identity, and dreams set aboard our favourite spaceship in the universe: The Flying Potato. Copyright...
Charged with carrying on her family's magical tradition, Filio must choose between legacy and freedom. "Tomatoes" by Eugenia Triantafyllou is a story about roots: those we inherit and those we put down for ourselves. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Read by...
Xiomara's birthday is tomorrow. She figures she'll do some last-minute planning as she sets out to fix a solar panel—only to have her crush ask to keep her company. "Electric Waterfalls" by Ruth Joffre is a sweet meditation on love and belonging set in...
A young woman visits her mother's homeland for the first time, which has since been ravaged by war. "Hiraeth Heart" by Lulu Kadhim is a touching meditation on generational memory and home. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by Lulu Kadhim, edited by...
Esther and Chaviva are best friends who never expected to be each other's direct competition for an arranged match with an off-world boy whose family will pick the victor based on her baking skills. No matter which of them wins, the other will lose: can...
Junisa grows up under the care of two personal guardians — "Me and Seed Sheself." But Junisa is no longer a child, and her longtime guardians must reevaluate their role in her life. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by Celeste Rita Baker, edited by...
Alice meets a man who loves languages, who consumes them as one would a delicious meal. "Banhus" by M.E. Bronstein is a story about language, and conquest, and finding freedom. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by M.E. Bronstein, edited by Aleksandra...
Liz and Owen jump at the chance for a weekend away, house sitting in suburbia, only to find something... strange... about the mirror in the house. "Ours but Not Our Own" by Joshua Tong is a delightfully haunting meditation on suburbia and the paths our...
Adam has inherited his grandmother's restaurant, where they serve sins—often covertly and illegally purchased from a nearby prison. When a customer sends back a dish, Adam is faced with questions he's not sure he wants to answer. Copyright khōréō magazine...
Eliza's mother was a talented artist without much time for family—until she died. Now, she needs Eliza for her last shot at fame, whatever the cost."The Scumbling" by J.C. Changmore is a haunting tale of ghosts, family, and broken love. Copyright khōréō...
When Alice's father finds a snake in a crate of bok choy in their grocery store their family owns, he wants to kill it. But Alice sets the snake free into their family home, one more secret for its rotten walls to keep—until they can't anymore. Copyright...
A moment of anger leaves nine-year-old Marta without her brother—but the bond between the twins has always been strong. "All Good Children, Come Out to Play" by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez is a haunting story about grief and guilt, death and moving on....
An unnamed narrator wears different skins to navigate different parts of her life: academia, her wealthy boyfriend's social circle, and her family's rigid dynamic that she seeks to escape. But her mutable presentation brings conditional acceptance at best,...
What are stories for? In Rhea Roy's "The Storyteller," an extraordinary, headstrong woman conceives and enacts a death-defying story out of the love of family. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by Rhea Roy, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read...
Bex chose a university parsecs away from family and friends. Alone and overwhelmed, she finds comfort and history in an unlikely place. "This Excessive Use of Pickled Foods" by Leora Spitzer is a warm story about sharing pasts and building futures...
The trees always spoke to Muta—until she lost herself in grief. Now, Karura Forest is silent; now, Nairobi beckons with noise and life. Can she find a way back to the whispering leaves? Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, edited...
Priya's grandfather found Amarnath Noy, but the family's ties to it weaken with each generation. Can Priya still find comfort there as she prepares for her father's funeral and her upcoming wedding? Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by Iona Datt...
Skelly's grandmother is teaching her to bake challah, an old recipe from Earth. But is preserving tradition enough when a portal to her grandmother's world beckons? Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by Jennifer Hudak, edited by Lian Xia Rose. Audio...
Jasy never feared photographs... until she was torn from home and adopted by a 'perfect' family. "Golden Girl" by A.M Guay interrogates transracial adoption by way of Get Out & The Stepford Wives. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by A.M Guay, edited...
"Green, Yellow, Red" by H. Pueyo What happens when your loved ones disappear as the world falls apart… and no one notices? A powerful dystopian tale about family, memory, and political upheaval. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read by Tiago Santos,...
"Love at the End" by Deborah Germaine Augustin Sometimes, you meet the right person at the wrong time… and sometimes, the right time is the end of the world. A cli-fi story about love and courage. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read by Su Ling Chan,...
"Our Bones Were the Mortar" by Anjali Patel A young woman tries to escape the family business of necromancy – only to realize that Manhattan is just as rife with spirits. An existential horror tackling America's history of slavery. Copyright khōréō...
"Cultureship" by Esther Alter What do common roots mean in a future where humanity is so far-flung that Earth is more fable than fact? An exploration of the fragmentation of belief, historicity, and community. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read by Sena...
"Evelina, My Tentacles!" by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read by Melissa Medina, Produced by Katalina Watt, Edited by Aleksandra Hill Visit khoreomag.com & follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @KhoreoMag. Artwork:...
"Nine-Tailed Heart" by Jessica Cho A young woman meets a gumiho who promises to steal her heart. A story about stories: the legends we grow up with, and the ones we write for ourselves. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read by Ashley E. Oh, Produced by...
"You'll Understand When You're a Mom Someday" by Isabel J. Kim Annalise does not survive childbirth, and yet, she lives. A story about family, loss, eldritch horrors, and just what it means to be home. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read by Gowri...
"tragedy of the sugarcane ghost" by Desirée Winns Decades after his death, a murdered man possesses the son of his killer to finally settle the score between them. A harrowing story that explores the cost of vengeance. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read...