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Crystal Koo
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Fictionist on the backroads 🇵🇭🇭🇰
http://cgskoo.wordpress.com/publications
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Vampires! Eldritch whales! Pathetic lesbians! Weird science! Vengeful trees! Sadness! As always, this issue has everything you crave
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 1d
Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡

If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today!

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White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com
September 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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ISSUE 3 COVER REVEAL!

As always, art is by the incredible @hvmator.bsky.social, who has once again absolutely nailed the vibes. Those golds and reds! These stories and poems! We can't wait for you to read this issue 🧡 You're going to love it.
OTHERSIDE Issue 3 cover art. The Wanderer is in the foreground staring up at ancient, weathered statues in a fantastic surreal red and gold setting. Last names of all the authors in the piece are listed at the bottom: Poole, Koo, Sirk Morató, Mori, Ten, Ross, Deyn, Mears, Yeh, Martinez Nocito, Schneider, Aurand, Fisher, Marcial.
August 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Excited for this!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Aug 12
Our Issue 3 TOC is HERE and it is AMAZING 🪐 🗡️

Seven pieces of original fiction, four poems, two reprints, and a special guest essay come together in an issue full of desperation and longing. We can't wait for you to read it in September!

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White text on a blurry red and orange background. Text reads: Issue 3, September 2026 Original Fiction One Floor, One Phoenix - Crystal Koo Wine-Dark - Cyrus Amelia Fisher His Face, in the End, Inches From Mine - Elijah J. Mears Ivan Ivanovich - Kristina Ten Field Notes on Liturgical Rites, Co-Authored Li and Albrecht - Mina Yeh The Illuminated World - Rebecca Schneider This Is Not a Place of Honor - RJ Aurand Nonfiction a special essay from Theo Marcial! White text on a blurry red and orange background. Text reads: Issue 3, September 2026 Original Poetry The Clay King - Arda Mori 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 Feral thing in a lightbox - Madeleine Poole trans/formative - Nico Martinez Nocito Reprint Fiction The Monster at the End of This Film - Algae Ross BLIGHT - Samir Sirk Morató
August 13, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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In this new essay from Crystal Koo, Jeanette Winterson is shown to present individual agency as having little real impact on the world around the main characters in The Stone Gods.

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Purple background, white text, which says The paradox, of course, is that an ecological apocalypse nevertheless repeats itself in every space-time, unchanged by Billie and Spike's efforts at love or re-imagining society. "Agency in The Stone Gods" -- Crystal Koo
July 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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If you've read Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods - or even if you haven't! - this is a great essay about agency in the face of planetary-scale events.

Read it now, for free!

www.speculativeinsight.com

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Purple background, white text, which says I'll explain how the novel's use of eternal return presents a world where large-scale cycles are indifferent to even the noblest of individual actions. "Agency in The Stone Gods" -- Crystal Koo
July 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Yay, thank you Alexandra!! :D Very happy to have this out in the world!
speculativeinsight.bsky.social Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · Jul 2
Crystal Koo examines the question of agency in Jeanette Winterson's novel The Stone Gods in this new (free!) essay.

Read it here now: www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says The Stone has been frequently analysed as, if not outrightly a text about the Anthropocene, one that critiques the destructive behaviour of humanity as a species at a planetary scale... Few of these analyses, however, have looked into what the novel actually says about human agency in the face of total environmental destruction. "Agency in The Stone Gods" -- Crystal Koo
July 3, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Thank you for the thoughtful recommendation, NM - really enjoyed reading what you got from it!
April 13, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Thank you Rebecca!!
April 1, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Yay! 🍄
heartlines-spec.com Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Mar 25
One week until Issue 10! Water, family, and death are big themes (with cryptids lurking throughout). Get the vibes before you dive deep:

Short Fiction
🚜🛰️☄️ by @pbarmby.bsky.social
👣👣👣 by Rachel Esser
🍄🏚️🍄 by @crystalkoo.bsky.social
🏝️♊👩‍✈️ by @bookended-islal.bsky.social
March 25, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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Excited to be in Heartlines Spec this March!
heartlines-spec.com Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Feb 16
Issue 10 has its bones! Our exquisite corpse will be affixed with short fiction from:

@pbarmby.bsky.social
Rachel Esser
@crystalkoo.bsky.social
@bookended-islal.bsky.social
Anne Liberton
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Scott Payne
Julia Raye
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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"I am the oldest daughter. To look after my family, I will have to bring a leopard home. Or be married off to a man with a string of leopard teeth laced around his neck. But I am not interested in men."

Read 'Ghost Leopard' by @crystalkoo.bsky.social

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#SFF
Ghost Leopard by Crystal Koo
Here in Blazing Mound, we are not adults until we have brought home a leopard.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Thanks for recommending Ash! 💕 I'm glad you enjoyed it!
ashvalewrites.bsky.social ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · Dec 1
in this month's (slightly late) newsletter, I talk a lil about pressure around the holidays (esp with kids), social overwhelm, and what I've been up to lately.

I also have story recs from @crystalkoo.bsky.social in @innerworlds.bsky.social 🐆
and @aishatuado.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com ❄️
Ash Vale Updates: November 2025
A day late and maybe a few dollars short
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December 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Thanks so much @nomonbooks.bsky.social!!! 💕 Looking forward to reading yours!
nomonbooks.bsky.social Mon @nomonbooks.bsky.social · Dec 1
Very obsessed with Ghost Leopard by @crystalkoo.bsky.social Read here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-ghos...
An achingly beautiful illustration of what can be built in place of a broken heart. Deliciously speculative. Published in @innerworlds.bsky.social
Ghost Leopard by Crystal Koo
Here in Blazing Mound, we are not adults until we have brought home a leopard.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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My short story Ghost Leopard is up at Inner Worlds! Big thanks to editor Sarah Jackson and excited to read the work of all these fine people
innerworlds.bsky.social Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Nov 30
👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾

Includes numerous CREATURES.

inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...

#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
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December 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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💥 Issue 9 TOC!!! 💥

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I Haven't Felt My Grief by Bleh 👅 Ghost Leopard by Crystal Koo Puparium by J. Y. Zhang Mumbi and the Second Coming by Celestine Ndanu K. The Monster by Mon Misir The Boy With The Headphones by Taija Sensei Mama's Labyrinth by Sylvia Heike To Sleep In Seagrass Beds by Angel Leal Moult by Anita Harris Satkunananthan What I'm Made Of by Camden Rose Hoofbeats by J. Nathan If You Can't Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine by RJ Aurand Wonderful by Yasmeen Fahmy 3 East by Ramez Yoakeim
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM