Eli is—one hundred percent, without a doubt—vampiro, but he's missing all the stereotypical traits. Is there room for him to exist in a world where everyone has already decided who and what he is?

Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by K. Victoria Hernandez, edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio edition read by Héctor González and produced by Katalina Watt.

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Artwork: Lucia Li

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

Priya's grandfather found Amarnath Noy, but the family's ties to it weaken with each generation. Can Priya still find comfort there as she prepares for her father's funeral and her upcoming wedding?

Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by Iona Datt Sharma, edited by Lian Xia Rose. Audio edition read by Ishani Kanetkar and produced by Katalina Watt.

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Artwork: Lucia Li

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

Skelly's grandmother is teaching her to bake challah, an old recipe from Earth. But is preserving tradition enough when a portal to her grandmother's world beckons?

Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by Jennifer Hudak, edited by Lian Xia Rose. Audio edition read by CJ Applebaum, and produced by Katalina Watt.

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Artwork: Lucia Li

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

For Grant Rutherford, work is both life and legacy — but when he dies a mere week after his wife, what he leaves behind will have metaphysical reverberations he could never have foreseen.

Content warnings: Grief, medicalized illness, death of a loved one

Copyright © 2021 khōréō magazine. Story by Maria Dong, edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio edition read by June Yoon and produced by Katalina Watt.

Maria Dong's (she/her) short fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Augur, Nightmare, Apparition Lit, Fusion Fragment, Decoded Pride, and If There's Anyone Left. She was featured in the 2018 Pitch Wars showcase and is agented by Amy Bishop at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. When Maria's not enjoying southwest Michigan's exquisite craft beer, she can be found on Twitter at @mariadongwrites or on her website, mariadong.com.

June is a professional Korean voice actor in Los Angeles with over 20 years of combined experience in acting, directing, producing, and teaching.

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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