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Just a tiny tweak to our post: submissions are officially open from November 1 to 30! Mark your calendars and get creative ❤️‍🔥We can’t wait to see what you come up with! 🎉✨

Thank you Krystal for your suggestion! We have gone ahead and updated our accessibility setting and going forward will include alt text to our posts🧡

In "Closed Doors" by @marymiseonwu.bsky.social, when Kayla's mother is absorbed into the local flesh monolith, Kayla struggles with her identity and looks for a way in. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/clos...

In "Island Getaway" by @soniafocke.bsky.social, Able Seaman Pol has a lot of problems - getting the cats fed, watered, and reporting for duty, and keeping tree roots from destroying the wiring, to name a few. Talking octopuses, though? That was new. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/isla...

In "Toothpaste Feelings" by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, an alien-human symbiote tries to sort out his complicated feelings at his former friends' wedding. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/toot...

In "The Moon’s Forests Burn All Your Life" by @cedarchromatic.bsky.social, a woman slowly smokes herself to death to protest an atrocity. When her cigarette supply runs low, a local kid grappling with both the protest and the atrocity brings her a cigar. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

In "Symbiote" @tchiuchu.bsky.social, writes about the things that become a part of you when you aren't paying attention, without your even realizing they're there. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/symb...

In "Deep Down Inside: Parasitism and Symbiosis" by @premeemohamed.com, the essay introduces parasitism, symbiosis, and the ideas of naturalisation and invasion in the issue. www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...