Description
A diverse anthology from writers around the world. From distant lands to the distant future, “Other Worlds” features folklore, fantasy, speculative, horror, contemporary fiction, and science-fiction exploring places, communities, and situations that are othered.
Twelve all new stories from: Samir Sirk Morató, Briar Ripley Page, Chey Rivera, Busayo Akinmoju, Roxane Llanque, A.L. Davidson, Victor Okechukwu, Bhumika Anand, Von Reyes, Eve Morton, Christina Ladd, and Booker G. A. Feniks. Cover art by Pangaea.
Contributors
The Shifters of the Hills
A family has to reckon with a “gift” passed on through generations, while living in a town that fears them for that power.
BUSAYO AKINMOJUFidelity
A couple discusses their future as they navigate being in an open, polyamourous long-distance relationship.
BHUMIKA ANANDThe World Under The White City
After discovering an underground city populated by automatons, William reflects on his life and future as the chaotic World Fair forever shifts the landscape of his hometown above him.
A.L. DAVIDSONThe Island of Coloured Fields
Gerhardt Teal returns to the land of his birth, the Island of Coloured Fields, where he learns that all is not as it seems, and the fabled Fields he has been yearning for hide secrets his parents had never told him.
BOOKER G.A. FENIKSEvent Horizon
A woman who escaped a cult as a child returns to veiw the site of its aftermath, to try to understand her mother’s actions and non-actions.
CHRISTINA LADDCane Men
A spiteful white stranger arrives in a farming community in Punjab where sugar cane is gold and Belarusian tractors a near-religious status symbol.
ROXANE LLANQUEOld Tricks
Strange people with strange purposes gather in Haven.
EVE MORTONBeneath The Rising Sun
A post-civil war community feels cut off from the rest of Nigeria when a woman’s only son enters a train to Jos but may not return.
VICTOR OKECHUKWUFringe Contender
Violence and intimacy become blurred and life might just be worth fighting for amongst a community of underground fighters.
VON REYESThe Midas Sea
Einar lives contentedly alone on a remote island perpetually covered by a cloud, until castaway Moira washes ashore.
BRIAR RIPLEY PAGEA Tale of Knives and Arrowheads
A father in a rebel family of archers tells the story of their home island to his child when the child is ready to begin his archery training.
CHEY RIVERABLIGHT
When an Appalachian community clashes with their neighbours – a grove of sentient, dying chestnut trees – tragedy strikes.
SAMIR SIRK MORATÓCover Art
PANGAEA
