OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 1 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, five poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. These pieces will carry you from royal courts to glittering starships, from roadside gas stations to palaces made of glass, and from heartbreak to possibility.

FICTION

This Is Not Your Extinction Event – Elena Sichrovsky
The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet – Simo Srinivas
Vitrification – Ishmael Grey
The Claywife – tanadrin
Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur – Abigail Eliza
Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain – Sarah Pauling
Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive – Nadia Radovich
Situationship – Seoung Kim
The Homeowner's Bride – Ayida Shonibar

POETRY

blessing for molly grue. – Elisheva Fox
Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen – Ann LeBlanc
Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be – Rick Hollon
Eat It Out – Cypher
Electrolysis – Nico Santana

NONFICTION

He Is Survived by His Wife – Jackie Hedeman

Original cover art is by Theo Marcial and interior art is by Ris.

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