A young paramedic defies a military summons by heading into the forest, where she gradually builds a new home and becomes something more than human.

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Evgenia Nekrasova, translated from Russian by Marianna Suleymanova and edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Georgia Mckenzie and produced by Grayson Norman, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

A father bumbles his way through family domesticities as he makes his way to the airport. His children do not know he is not their father at all, but a stranger with a gruesome past, hard-earned advice, and a primal longing for a stolen life.

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by H.H. Pak, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Cyrus Rodas, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

A traumatized time traveler keeps traveling back to his past to punish his younger self. Over multiple loops, he learns to forgive himself.

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Samir Sirk Morató, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Valentín Ángel Fernández, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

Dr. Sun, the solo practitioner of an extraordinary medical specialty, is asked to save one last patient by the protege who abandoned her.

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Shiwei Zhou, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Ishani Kanetkar and produced by E. Broderick, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

An imprisoned god is bound to the trees of an ancient swamp, until one day someone comes looking.

Content warnings: Violence, body horror

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Natasha King, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Suzie Rai and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

In an RPG game, a Black avatar repeatedly attempts to survive an encounter with the police.

Content warnings: Violence, death, racism, hateful language, xenophobia

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by KÁNYIN Olorunnisola, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Isabella Tugman and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

In 2102, Michi goes undercover as a maid for a hacking job, while in 2030, Ryo sells his appearance to a tech company. Their lives intersect to expose the dirty laundry of neo-feudal futuristic Japanese elite society.

Content warnings: Classism, injustice

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Fumio Takano, translated by Sharni Wilson, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Justine Leah Hince and Alex Bankier, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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A storyteller in the distant future shows the reader different vantage points, in hopes they might "see" the web of connections between past and future, reader and story, responsibility and joy.

Content warnings: Acknowledgement of genocide, animal harm

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Rae Mariz, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Maria Corcobado and produced by Grayson Norman, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

In New Hope City, an indentured clone comes out as trans. People have opinions about it.

Content warnings: Transphobia (including misgendering), abuse, implied forced servitude, implied climate disaster

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Leon Tomova, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Swann Grey and produced by Evalyn Broderick, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0

A boy walks into an art exhibit and steals a sex doll on display. It doesn't go anywhere the doll expects.

Content warnings: Body horror described in detail

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Kawai Shen, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Vera Tan, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0