“We all have dreams, and these dreams keep us positive
about the future because if we really want to achieve the dreams that we
have and the hopes that we have, that means we have to get fighting for
the future. So that’s one of my biggest motivations to keep fighting.”
—Vanessa Nakate
—Vanessa Nakate
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Issue 2021.57
Short stories
- ‘Wives at the End of the World’, Avra Margariti (illustrated by Joyce Chng)
- ‘The City, My Love’, Alexandra Seidel (illustrated by Carmen Moran)
- ‘A Subtle Fire Beneath the Skin’, Hayley Stone (illustrated by Cécile Matthey)
- ‘Autonomous Dispatch’, Anna Ziegelhof (illustrated by Fluffgar)
- ‘Faulty Genes’, Hannah Soyer (illustrated by Eric Asaris)
Poetry
- ‘The Flier and the Sheltered Maid’, Ana Gardner (illustrated by Miguel Santos)
- ‘Alien Armada’, Mary Soon Lee (illustrated by Laura-Anca Adascalitei)
- ‘In Dependence’, Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (illustrated by Jason Baltazar)
- ‘Apotheosis’, Nicole J. LeBoeuf (illustrated by Toeken)