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KHÔRA's Winter 2025 Special Edition
You who have been born—listen, for I will give you a moon to sing into the darkest places where rock meets bone and spirit moves slow...
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Issue 40: Yes, I talk shit. by nawa angel a.h.
I was born with blood in the rice / I walked up the rice terraces one thousand times / I fed one million people with my thighs...
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Issue 30 | New Book and Featured Essay by Grace Loh Prasad
Issue 31 Special Edition: Thought Path Forest Mind
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Old Aged (for Annie) | short fiction by Dey Rivers
My Body Begins Under a Full Moon | Essay by Tara Shea Burke
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Issue 40: everyday awe | by Mayur Chauhan + Winter Call for Submissions
My paternal grandmother, I called her Amma ji, had a tattoo on her right forearm, of her name, in Devanagari script: कौशल्या (Kaushalya.) I often joked…
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Issue 40: Our Lady of the Thaw | by Marina Gross-Hoy
“Is it time to talk about stopping?” She is watching you quietly, waiting for your answer. Her question is a betrayal. She is supposed to be midwifing…
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Issue 40: Force of Nature by Michael Nagle | Artwork by Kirk Read
When I hear someone talk about “the silver linings of cancer,” I am so immediately turned off by the framing that it’s made me wonder if I’m just…
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Issue 40: Momma's Love Itch | by Featured Writer Elizabeth Woody
My first mothers did not have wombs. I have two original ancient mothers in this glittering world. They imparted wisdom to us when we were not yet real…
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Issue 39: How to Eat a Spider | by Featured Writer Rebecca Evans
"'Just swallow quick and you won’t feel it squirm,' Abby says. I wipe my palms on my jeans. No way. There is no way. Abby holds the spider by one leg…
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Issue 39: Sensuality of the Freeze | by Marina Gross-Hoy
"What does a flower feel when it blossoms? Soft? Beautiful? After being a seed, then a sprout, how does it feel to unfurl? Nothing like the process that…
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Issue 39: This Litany is an Elegy for the Phoenix’s Friend | by nawa angel a.h.
"Slow down. my lover, my friends, my sibling, my neighboring lime tree says to me. They say it quickly, like a campfire catching too much wind."
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Issue 39: The Tree of Togetherness by Michael Nagle | Artwork by Kirk Read
When I found out I was going to die, he called me every day. I didn’t pick up. I was too pissed off at the whole entire world to bother, and anyways…
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