Dec 29, 2022
An unnamed narrator wears different skins to navigate different parts of her life: academia, her wealthy boyfriend's social circle, and her family's rigid dynamic that she seeks to escape. But her mutable presentation brings conditional acceptance at best, dependent as it is on external perception. “Skin” by Isha...
Dec 15, 2022
A moment of anger leaves nine-year-old Marta without her brother—but the bond between the twins has always been strong. "All Good Children, Come Out to Play" by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez is a haunting story about grief and guilt, death and moving on.
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Dec 1, 2022
What are stories for? In Rhea Roy’s “The Storyteller,” an extraordinary, headstrong woman conceives and enacts a death-defying story out of the love of family.
Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by Rhea Roy, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Ishani Kanetkar and edited by Lian Xia Rose, with...
Nov 3, 2022
Bex chose a university parsecs away from family and friends. Alone and overwhelmed, she finds comfort and history in an unlikely place. "This Excessive Use of Pickled Foods" by Leora Spitzer is a warm story about sharing pasts and building futures together.
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Oct 20, 2022
Child, parent, and grandparent: each stands at a threshold in "Unname Me at the Altar" by Ashaye Brown, a tender and brutal story of unbreakable bonds and unspeakable loss.
Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by Ashaye Brown, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Ashaye Brown and edited by Lian Xia Rose,...