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Davian Aw

Davian Aw is a Rhysling Award nominee whose short fiction and poetry have appeared in over thirty publications, including Anathema, Abyss & Apex, Not One of Us, NewMyths.com, and Diabolical Plots. He lives with his family in Singapore.


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Current Issue
22 Jul 2024
Fiction
Bone by Bone | Csontról csontra 
By: Mónika Rusvai
Translated by: Vivien Urban
Jadwiga is the city. Her body dissolves in the walls, her consciousness seeps into the cracks, her memory merges with the memories of buildings.
Fiction
Csontról csontra | Bone by Bone 
By: Mónika Rusvai
Jadwiga a város. Teste felszívódik a falakban, tudata behálózza a repedéseket, emlékezete összekeveredik az épületek emlékezetével.
Fiction, Reprint
Canção Operária | Worker's Song 
By: H. Pueyo
Aqui jaz a rainha, gigante e imóvel, cada um de seus seis braços caídos e abertos, curvados, tomados de leves espasmos, como se esquecesse de que não estava mais viva.
Poetry
I Said | मैंने कहा 
By: Sourav Roy
Translated by: Carol D'Souza
I said sky/ and with a stainless-steel plate covered/ the rotis going stale 
Poetry
मैंने कहा | I Said 
By: Sourav Roy
मैंने कहा आकाश/ और स्टेनलेस स्टील की थाली से ढक दिया/ बासी पड़ रही रोटियों को
Fiction, Reprint
Worker's Song | Canção Operária 
By: H. Pueyo
Translated by: H. Pueyo
Here lies the queen, giant and still, each of her six arms sprawled, open, curved, twitching like she forgot she no longer breathed.
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Issue 15 Jul 2024
Art, Fiction
Pelt 
By: Steven Archer
Art by: delila
Poetry
The Abstract Maker 
By: Leyla Guirand
Poetry
The Languages of Birds 
By: Mary Soon Lee
Reviews
Monday: A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock 
By: Octavia Cade
,
Wednesday: Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities by Manjula Padmanabhan 
By: Sneha Pathak
,
Friday: The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan 
By: Tristan Beiter
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Issue 8 Jul 2024
Fiction
Cold Comfort 
By: Louis Inglis Hall
Poetry
Panikos Revisited 
By: Elizabeth R. McClellan
Poetry
Eidetic 
By: J. Deery Wray
Reviews
Monday: Stardust: Cinematic Archives from the End of the World by Hannah Goodwin 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Wednesday: The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 
By: Dan Hartland
,
Friday: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig 
By: Eric Primm
Read Issue
Issue 1 Jul 2024
Fiction
The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault) 
By: K. A. Wiggins
Poetry
The Past Is a Foreign Country 
By: Rachel Rodman
Poetry
Why is the forest lonely? 
By: Pacella Chukwuma- Eke
Reviews
Monday: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 
By: Andy Sawyer
,
Wednesday: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das 
By: Nileena Sunil
,
Friday: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 
By: Bill Capossere
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Issue 24 Jun 2024
Poetry
The hunt for the murderous monkey has ended; 
By: Olga Maslova
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Rise of Speculative Poetry 
By: Eugen Bacon
Art, Poetry
Gold Foil Experiment 
By: R. Christopher Aversa
Art by: Teo Nalani
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
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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
Articles, Non-Fiction
Phonetics of Draconic Languages 
By: Leah Nodar
Poetry
A Tale of Moths and Home (of bones and breathing) (of extrinsic restrictive lung disease) 
By: Milo K. Szyszka
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
,
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
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