OTHERSIDE: Issue 2 (June 2026‪)‬

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 2 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, six poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. These pieces feature tiger princesses and pop stars, sword-wielding students and spacefaring scientists, cyborgs and witches—and families of all kinds.

FICTION

•We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers – P.V. Vamsidhar
•Before She Knew About Magic – Joshua Geller Schwartz
•Two People – Ben Francisco
•This Is C(lone)-Pop – Lia Lao
•Spider Kiss – Bree Wernicke
•Chī Kǔ – J.Y. Zhang
•First to Rot – J.N. Howell
•Crowns – cee-cee manrique
•Remade, Reshaped, Remembered – Sydney Paige Guerrero

POETRY

•Masquerade. – Chidera Offor
•Ganymede – Gospel Chinedu
•obsolesce – Macey Levington
•girl, flogged by a false-named whip. – Amie Shen
•Open Your Eyes Again – Toby MacNutt
•As seen through the hole of the hag stone: – Sienna Tristen

NONFICTION

•A Noose of Purple Silk – Sidney Grady

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