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Arina Konstantinova

Arina Konstantinova is a full time freelance concept artist and illustrator. Her focus areas are magical environments, background paintings and illustration.

Her website - https://tektober.art/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tektober/

A Phoenix rises from a bottle held in someone's hand

A Recipe for Life, ©2024 by Arina Konstantinova


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24 Jun 2024
Poetry
The hunt for the murderous monkey has ended; 
By: Olga Maslova
I am a little sad that story has ended, even though I could have been the target
Art, Poetry
Gold Foil Experiment 
By: R. Christopher Aversa
Art by: Teo Nalani
We are all harmonic oscillators / Sloshing around in watery bags of salt,
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Rise of Speculative Poetry 
Strange Horizons
Speculative poetry has the power to detach and disarm, to tease and pull, to play and emancipate.
Reviews
Monday: Festival & Game of the Worlds by César Aira 
By: Will McMahon
Wednesday: Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa 
By: Kristy Wang
Friday: The Silverblood Promise by James Logan 
By: Eric Hendel
Read Issue
Issue 17 Jun 2024
Poetry
The Exorcism of Icarus 
By: Lesley Hart Gunn
Poetry
A Shiva 
By: Emily Ruth Verona
Fiction
The Big Easy 
By: Joanne Rixon
Reviews
Monday: Two Views: Biopeculiar by Gigi Ganguly 
By: Akankshya Abismruta
By: Areeb Ahmad
,
Wednesday: A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, Translated by Anton Hur 
By: William Shaw
,
Friday: The House that Horror Built by Christina Henry 
By: Shannon Fay
Read Issue
Issue 10 Jun 2024
Fiction
The crack, or one past two 
By: Danilo Heitor
Poetry
In a government class, I discuss my home 
By: Tajudeen Muadh
Poetry
After 
By: Jess Hyslop
Reviews
Monday: Woodworm by Layla Martinez, translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott 
By: Sally Parlier
,
Wednesday: Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima 
By: David Lewis
,
Friday: Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender 
By: Dean Leetal
Read Issue
Issue 9 Jun 2024
Poetry
Your Visiting Dragon 
By: Devan Barlow
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Roots of the Genre: An Interview with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay 
By: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
By: William Shaw
Articles, Non-Fiction
Queerness and Assimilation in Blade Runner 2049 
By: E.E. Murray
Azimuth, Editorials
The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Poetry
Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father 
By: Angel Leal
Poetry
A Tour of the Blue Palace 
By: Bree Wernicke
Poetry
A Tale of Moths and Home (of bones and breathing) (of extrinsic restrictive lung disease) 
By: Milo K. Szyszka
Fiction
Phonetics of Draconic Languages 
By: Leah Nodar
Fiction
By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars 
By: Premee Mohamed
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 11: Boundaries in Genre 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Reviews
Thursday: Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics by Raphael Kabo 
By: Kit Eginton
,
Thursday: Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford 
By: Dan Hartland
Read Issue
Issue 3 Jun 2024
Fiction
Why We Eat Each Other 
By: Yoon Chung
Poetry
Wedding Party ... Featuring, My Mother 
By: Elly Luisa Salah
Poetry
Trails of the Snake 
By: Mary Robles
Reviews
Monday: You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer 
By: Aran Ward Sell
,
Wednesday: Forge of the High Mage by Ian C. Esslemont 
By: Bill Capossere
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Friday: Moon Soul by Nathaniel Luscombe 
By: Racheal Chie
Read Issue
Issue 27 May 2024
Poetry
The Lantern Runner 
By: Christopher Morgan
Poetry
Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024 
By: Samantha H. Chung
Articles, Non-Fiction
Tiger Style And Other (Post)colonial Metamorphoses 
By: Mikko Toivanen
Reviews
Monday: Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice 
By: Sean Guynes
,
Wednesday: Churn by Chloe Chun Seim 
By: E. C. Barrett
,
Friday: Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead 
By: Nataliia Sova
Read Issue
Issue 20 May 2024
Fiction
The Spindle of Necessity 
By: B. Pladek
Poetry
The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer’s Father 
By: T.D. Walker
Poetry
SONNET FOR THE UNBELIEVER 
By: Paul Chuks
Reviews
Monday: After World by Debbie Urbanski 
By: Andy Sawyer
,
Wednesday: Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park 
By: Matt Holder
,
Friday: The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery 
By: Mark Granger
Read Issue
Issue 13 May 2024
Poetry
baking in different conditions 
By: Carrie Grigorian
Art, Fiction
A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief 
By: Christopher Blake
Art by: Arina Konstantinova
Poetry
In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells The Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope 
By: Gospel Chinedu
Reviews
Monday: Scavengers Reign 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Wednesday: The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction edited and translated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay 
By: William Shaw
,
Friday: Your Utopia by Bora Chung 
By: Tina S. Zhu
Read Issue
Issue 6 May 2024
Fiction
Those Who Smuggle Themselves Into Slivermoon 
By: Varsha Dinesh
Poetry
the dead have nothing to say to you 
By: R. Lazarus
Poetry
Cat amongst the cabbages 
By: James Salvius Cheng
Reviews
Monday: Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee 
By: Shinjini Dey
,
Wednesday: Dioramas by Blair Austin 
By: Zachary Gillan
,
Friday: Verushka by Jan Stinchcomb 
By: Rebecca Turkewitz
Read Issue
Issue 29 Apr 2024
Fiction
Thousand Petal Song 
By: Caroline Hung
Poetry
Now You Know 
By: Arthur H. Manners
Poetry
Drowning Machine 
By: Emma E. Murray
Poetry
the ante 
By: Crystal Sidell
Articles, Non-Fiction, Reprint
The Howling Truth 
By: CL Hellisen
Reviews
Monday: The Book of Love by Kelly Link 
By: William Shaw
,
Wednesday: Sordidez by E. G. Condé 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Friday: Song of the Mango and Other New Myths by Vida Cruz-Borja 
By: Kristy Wang
Read Issue
Issue 15 Apr 2024
Poetry
Fluorescence 
By: Saheed Sunday
Poetry
Follow Up 
By: David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Art, Fiction
Nuca 
By: Ana Hurtado
Art by: delila
Reviews
Monday: You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi, translated by Chris Andrews 
By: Rachel Cordasco
,
Wednesday: How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall 
By: Dave Fitzgerald
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