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Jun
02
Editor's note
Welcome to issue three of Inner Worlds.
These fourteen short stories explore subjects including trauma, psychosis, dissociation, and compulsion, as
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Jun
02
Things Elan Reacquainted Himself With After Breaking Out of His Single-Day Time Loop, by D. A. Straith
Content warnings
Parental emotional abuse; Trauma; Food.
1. The colour ochre, painted by the city mageguard around his front door
4 min read
Jun
02
New Immortals, by Lex Chamberlin
Content warnings
Apocalypse; Gender dysphoria.
The steel bodies are all beautiful, and I see myself in none of them.
“It’
4 min read
Jun
02
Written in Lace, by Samantha Rich
Guardswoman Ysris brought her along to the captain’s tent, which was exciting in a way. Teys had never been
10 min read
Jun
02
Subsume, by Chase Anderson
Content warnings
Dissociation; Anxiety; Divided sense of self.
The advent of You was foretold by the spectral whinging of springs
2 min read
Jun
02
Nexus, by Xan van Rooyen
Content warnings
Self harm; Alcohol; Drug use; Mentions of death.
The entry fee is paid in blood, carried in thimble-vials
4 min read
Jun
02
Halogen Lullaby, by Shubh Mamtora
Two machines meet after a decade apart.
“I brought your things.”
“Thank you.”
“I’m leaving for the Moon tomorrow.
3 min read
Jun
02
Inconvenient Anxiety Fish, by Priya Sridhar
Content warnings
Anxiety; Parasites mention.
Anxiety woke me with sharp nibbles. I cracked an eye open. Piranha teeth latched onto
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Jun
02
I march—we march the Mushroom street, by Akis Linardos
Content warnings
Plague; Dissociation; Mentions of death.
We know we’ve reached the right street by the Mushrooms squeezing from
4 min read
Jun
02
Brine and Possibility, by Devan Barlow
Familiar shouts echoed behind her as she raced through thick patches of yellow gorse, heading for the sea.
Experience had
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