OTHERSIDE: Issue 3 (September 2026‪)‬

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 3 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, four poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. Within these pages, you'll swim with hungry leviathans, journey to the grave of the last vampire, work miracles in hospital basements… and explore questions of duty and desire.

FICTION

•One Floor, One Phoenix – Crystal Koo
•Field Notes on Liturgical Rites, Co-Authored Li and Albrecht – Mina Yeh
•BLIGHT – Samir Sirk Morató
•This Is Not a Place of Honor – RJ Aurand
•The Monster at the End of This Film – Algae Ross
•Ivan Ivanovich – Kristina Ten
•The Illuminated World – Rebecca Schneider
•His Face, in the End, Inches From Mine – Elijah J. Mears
•Wine-Dark – Cyrus Amelia Fisher

POETRY

•Feral thing in a lightbox – Madeleine Poole
•The Clay King – Arda Mori
•trans/formative – Nico Martinez Nocito
•Tiktaalik Rosae, or, If We Were the Earliest Example of a Link Between Fish and Tetrapods Would You Climb onto the Mudflats with Me? – Kym Deyn

NONFICTION

•Why do you tear me from myself? – Theo Marcial

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