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Hollywood actor Hendrick lives through a curated trauma experience to become Greek enough for a role. But how much will it cost him? Content warnings: Suicide, torture simulation, cultural appropriation Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Christos Callow Jr, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Kat Kourbeti and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit...

Aliens who share distant human ancestors with Earthlings arrive on Earth seeking refuge, and their African lineage run into issues with the US government. Content warnings: Racism, genocide Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Chris Campbell, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Mike Castoro and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and...

Deb is dead set on getting a pedicure, now, damn anyone else's time! But the Universe has its own plans, and she's not the only VIP to walk through the doors of SALON LA BELLE, eager to have her wish granted. Content warnings: Blood, violence, death, racism Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Cindy Phan, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Tricia Nguyen and Griffin Puatu, with cas...

Rival figure skaters use dangerous body modification technology to outperform each other in the rink. Content warnings: Racism Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Claire Jia-Wen, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Lauren Choo and produced by Melissa Ren, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @KhoreoMag. Music: This...

"A Little Like Sap, a Bit Like a Tree" by Natalia Theodoridou is a story about a transmasc nursing birds, based on true events. Content warnings: Blood, breastfeeding, loss of a child (not shown) Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Natalia Theodoridou, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Rue Dickey, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follo...

"In the Age of Fire" by Ana Rüsche follows the journey of a boy from Panama to the United States, through the immigration crisis and the climate crisis, to meet creatures from future generations in the caldera of a volcano. Content warnings: Discrimination and violence against immigrants (including children), mentions of death, climate change and eco-anxiety Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story b...

Nuran struggles with her mental health and an abusive household. Is escape possible with a voice down the well? Content warnings: Mental Illness, death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Esra Kahya, translated from Turkish by Aysel K. Basci, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Shakyra Dunn and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

A Croat refugee comes to terms with his trauma through studying metaphorical maps to his own lostness. Content warnings: Graphic wartime violence and implied torture, death of friends and strangers, hateful language directed at ethnic groups, mental illness  Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Angelisa Fontaine-Wood, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Goran Kramarić and produced...

A young scientist struggles to find purpose in life after being left behind by those fleeing a post-apocalyptic Earth. Content warnings: Suicide and suicidal ideation, death, and animal death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Madeleine Vigneron, edited by Sachiko Ragosta. Audio edition read by Loretta Chang and produced by Melissa Ren, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

Someone has to be the best at something, and when a new technology begets a new sport, it may as well be her. Content warnings: Knife violence, blood, death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by E. A. Xiong, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Alexa Aguinaldo, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

Peace (Filipino, Scorpio, middle child) encounters Leon, a shapeshifter. Leon's inability to commit to one form challenges Peace's concept of identity during a time when her professional reputation and cultural authenticity have come into question. Content warnings: References to ICE/deportation Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Jason Pangilinan, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition rea...

A family vacation in the mountains takes a weird turn when they are forced to choose what to bring and what to leave behind. Content warnings: Violence, war, animal cruelty, death, intergenerational trauma Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Leslie What, edited by Sachiko Ragosta. Audio edition read by Rebecca Jensen Uesugi and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit...

A family living under oppression hides their magic in a song passed down the generations. Take Up Thy Mother's Song is a story about when to choose survival and when to fight back, and when these are one and the same. Content warnings: Graphic violence, blood, death of a parent Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Natasha King, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Danielle Bayl...

What happens when you come home and home is in pieces, and everyone is gone? Here, unruly spirits and old memories are dredged up in this act of reclaiming and healing. Content warnings: Depictions of the aftermath of war, indirect mentions of death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Anna Bendiy, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Danielle Bryn, with casting and production by J...

After learning the true history of her land, a young woman returns to her isolated hometown to dispel the propaganda they were told. "Child's Tongue" interrogates our silences and complicity in colonial narratives. Content warnings: Sexual harassment, discussion of war crimes, death of a parent, and heavily implied child abuse Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Monique Laban, edited by Zhui...

An endless beam of light arrives and splits the sky. In the turmoil following the resulting global EMP, aging immigrant Demetri's family collapses and he must grapple for a place in a shattered world. Content warnings: References to the death of a child Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Andrew Najberg, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Patrick Langner, and produced by Lian Xia...

"Trees Can Have My Soul; In Return, Let Me Have My Grief" asks what a mother tongue is when survival requires assimilation. Content warnings: Mild body horror, grief, death of a parental figure, racism Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Rukman Ragas, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Ahrreby Anandakumar and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit...

In Armenian folklore, all werewolves are women. Cursed, punished, feared, shunned. But that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, does it, dear? Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Jolie Toomajan, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio edition read by Eva Roslin and produced by Melissa Ren, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @...

A deluxe riverboat welcomes the galaxy's wealthiest tourists to the drought-ridden Amazon — but no one's seen her mysterious captain. "The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle" is a flash exploration of colonization and survival. Content warnings: Violence/death (offscreen), colonization, implied human trafficking Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by  L.M. Guay , edited by Isabella Kestermann. A...

Come one, come all! Witness the fall of a despot alongside the glorious rebirth of one heavenly beast in "RAIN FIRE CLOUD" by Caroline Hung. Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Caroline Hung , edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Sam Yeow, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @KhoreoMag. Music: This To...

The defiant notes of a bass guitar ignite a city's fight against tyrants through the raw magic of music. Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Rodrigo Culagovski, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Sam Cavalcanti and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @KhoreoMag. Music: This Too Shall Pas...

The unsettling arrival of war and how hope in tales pass from generation to generation. Content warnings: War, orphans, implied trauma due to armed conflict, death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Tania Chen, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio edition read by Michelle Kelly and produced by Melissa Ren, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram a...

In the near future, the corpse inside the abandoned deep-sea submersible Blue Cube becomes another landmark of the Challenger Deep. Content warning: Mentions of death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Prema Arasu, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Hira Pendleton, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Faceboo...

A ghost of the dead daughter visits the musician every night. Together, they compose their masterpiece of grief. Content warning: Death of a child Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Sofia Ezdina, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Olga Tenyakova, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @KhoreoMag. Music...