OTHERSIDE: Issue 2 (June 2026)

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 2 includes seven original stories, two reprinted stories, six poems, and one essay, as well as original artwork. These pieces feature tiger princesses and pop stars, sword-wielding students and spacefaring scientists, cyborgs and witches—and families of all kinds.FICTIONWe Who Have Been Raised by Tigers – P.V. VamsidharBefore She Knew About Magic – Joshua Geller SchwartzTwo People – Ben FranciscoThis Is C(lone)-Pop – Lia LaoSpider Kiss – Bree WernickeChī Kǔ – J.Y. ZhangFirst to Rot – J.N. HowellCrowns – cee-cee manriqueRemade, Reshaped, Remembered – Sydney Paige GuerreroPOETRYMasquerade. – Chidera OfforGanymede – Gospel Chineduobsolesce – Macey Levingtongirl, flogged by a false-named whip. – Amie ShenOpen Your Eyes Again – Toby MacNuttAs seen through the hole of the hag stone: – Sienna TristenNONFICTIONA Noose of Purple Silk – Sidney GradyOriginal cover art is by Theo Marcial and interior art is by Ris.