Welcome to issue four of Inner Worlds. For this issue we opened for longer stories than usual, and received over

In the end, Jason agreed to the thinkbot treatment. His mom drove him out to the local nature preserve—a good spot, she said, to start things fresh.

My grandfather died alone and afraid. Neither are surprising. He lived alone because he was afraid; he died in fear because he was alone.

Mom prayed for every bug Dad squashed. A whole three minutes, head bowed and everything. As soon as she finished, she’d do the sign of the cross.

When I miss him, I tell myself I’ll work up the courage to ask the stars where my husband’s ended up.

Welcome to issue three of Inner Worlds. These fourteen short stories explore subjects including trauma, psychosis, dissociation, and compulsion, as

Content warnings Parental emotional abuse; Trauma; Food. 1. The colour ochre, painted by the city mageguard around his front door

Content warnings Apocalypse; Gender dysphoria. The steel bodies are all beautiful, and I see myself in none of them. “It’

Guardswoman Ysris brought her along to the captain’s tent, which was exciting in a way. Teys had never been

Content warnings Dissociation; Anxiety; Divided sense of self. The advent of You was foretold by the spectral whinging of springs