khōréō, Volume 2, Issue 3

khōréō

by Aleksandra Hill (Editor), Ashaye Brown (Contributor), Isha Karki (Contributor)

khoreo magazine’s Volume 2, Issue 3. Originally published September 25, 2022. Includes five fantastic stories: “Unname Me at the Altar” by Ashaye Brown; “All Good Children, Come Out to Play” by Karlo Yeager Rodr’guez, “Skin” by Isha Karki, “The Storyteller” by Rhea Roy, and “This Excessive Use of Pickled Foods” by Leora Spitzer. Also includes an interview with Naseem Jamnia and an excerpt of their book, The Bruising of Qilwa. Cover art created by Tangmo Cecchini. Spot art by Damien Jairus Banaag.

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First published September 25, 2022

About the author

Aleksandra Hill is a Polish-Canadian speculative fiction writer and the founder of khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. She earned an MFA at the New School in Fiction and Non-Fiction writing and is an alumna of the Odyssey Writers Workshop. In past lives, she earned a Ph.D. in computational biology and worked as a management consultant and a product manager.

Reviews

[Netanella · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read "Skin" by Isha Karki, for the Worlds Beyond the Margins Author Speed Date Challenge. Very nicely done - it's published in Khoreo magazine, which focuses on spec fiction focusing on the immigrant and diaspora experience. And "Skin" really did fit that mold. It's the story of a young woman, a Nepalese who is living in England, pursuing a PhD and trying to fit in to dominant, white society. Skin takes an entirely different meaning here.

I'd like to say that I hated the boyfriend and would have liked to commit bodily harm to him.