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A couple living on the mountain near a war zone adopt a herd of displaced sheep.

Content warnings: Implied genocide, animal death, body horror, cannibalism

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Lisobel Tang, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Olga Tenyakova, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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As famine hits southwestern Nigeria, a family is forced to battle not only hunger and disease, but an insistent curse.

Content warnings: Death, non-graphic body horror

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Jesutomisin Emmanuel Ipinmoye, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by James Pierre, with production by Aaron Kling and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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A Jakarta creative invited to a Sumatran village is haunted by the colonial and neocolonial violence brought to life by the tale of a white crocodile.

Content warnings: Blood, animal death, mention of self-harm

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Dea Anugrah, translated by Annie Tucker, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Brian Long, with production by Grayson Norman and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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An astronaut caught in the accretion disk of a black hole sends desperate messages to his lover and children back on Earth. But time is running out to escape — and there are forces in the universe far stronger, and stranger, than love.

Content warnings: Death, homophobia, suicide

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Phoenix Alexander, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Mike Castoro, with production by and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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The sorcerer needs an heir. Not of her own flesh and blood, but sired—as she was—by one of the jungle's spirit-walking tigers and imbued with their primal magic. All of paradise is hers to offer, so what is she to do when the tiger refuses her deal?

Content warnings: Animal death, blood, coerced reproductive labor, drug use, attempted sexual assault (discussed), indentured servitude, violence

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Lowry Poletti, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Tiffany Liu Veprinski and Ana Elisa Rubio, with production and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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When the real world becomes unbearable, what would you sacrifice for the chance to live in a dream?

Content warnings: Euthanasia, death and dying, implied eugenics

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Megan Chee, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by byclarivoice, with production by Lian Xia Rose and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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In a post-apocalyptic world, a mother accidentally becomes a leader and a god.

Content warnings: Death of a spouse, natural disasters, references to pre-disaster ableism

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by K. Lynn Harrison, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by K. Lynn Harrison, with production by Grayson Norman and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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A woman returns to burn the last of her mother's body, in the wake of her mother's death — an effort to escape a dark entity that has sealed itself to the bones of three generations of Thai women.

Content warnings: Racism, ageism, self-harm, blood, dismemberment/amputation, fire, child abandonment, implied sexual assault

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by J.A.W McCarthy, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Rebecca Jensen Uesugi, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Deerbreed blogger Kirill wants to tell the story of worldwide human-animal transformations, but the Flock is calling to him.

Content warnings: Classism, animal cruelty, body horror

This piece is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the novel Skin and Hide.

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Yasmine Haj, with production by Aaron Kling and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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A young scribe joins a voyage to hunt sea creatures in waters that once belonged to the feared Northerners, but the truth behind the Northern myths is more complex than they first believed.

Content warnings: Animal cruelty and death, use of the r-word

Copyright © 2026 khōréō magazine. Story by Subodhana Wijeyeratne, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Raymond Feliz, with production and casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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