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.