Editor's Note
Welcome to Inner Worlds’ second issue. In these twelve stories, you’ll find space travel, necromancy, a sentient house, a
Because He Was a Doe Once, and His Feet Can't Forget the Taste of Soil, by Kyle E Miller
Ashley was only a few miles from home, but he had never been to this part of the countryside. He
Recollections of the Abyssopelagic Dredge, by Aster Olsen
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Violence. Transphobia.
I try not to live with regret. Even now, I’d rather remember that shared moment
The Memory, by Hussain Ayoub
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War.
See the Memory. It has the eyes of your grandfather. The smile of your grandmother. It smells
Smalls the Wonder, by Cindy Phan
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Death.
Ambrose Smalls was not a great man. Nor was he a wise man, or rich. He was
Death of a Thousand Papercuts, by Avra Margariti
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Violence. Self harm. Infected wound.
It starts with a papercut. You raise your pointer finger in the negative
Evergreen, by Dawn Vogel
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Parent with terminal illness.
Lennox slammed the door on their way out of their mum's house,
Hauntless House, by Madalena Daleziou
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Threat. Control.
You’re back again tonight. Back on the sofa you and your flatmate swore had sleep-inducing
The Replay Weaver, by Amy Robinson
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Anxiety.
Ember waited until the neuron traffic around her thinned and the darkness trended from grey to a
Teething, by Cassandra Daucus
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Body horror. Pregnancy. Birth imagery. Postpartum psychosis. Violence against an infant. Death of an infant.
The baby is