OTHERSIDE: Issue 2 (June 2026) - OTHERSIDE Magazine, #2

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.

FICTION

We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers – P.V. Vamsidhar Before She Knew About Magic – Joshua Geller Schwartz Two People – Ben Francisco This Is C(lone)-Pop – Lia Lao Spider Kiss – Bree Wernicke Chī Kǔ – J.Y. Zhang First to Rot – J.N. Howell Crowns – cee-cee manrique Remade, Reshaped, Remembered – Sydney Paige Guerrero

POETRY

Masquerade. – Chidera Offor Ganymede – Gospel Chinedu obsolesce – Macey Levington girl, flogged by a false-named whip. – Amie Shen Open Your Eyes Again – Toby MacNutt As seen through the hole of the hag stone: – Sienna Tristen

NONFICTION

A Noose of Purple Silk – Sidney Grady

Original cover art is by Theo Marcial and interior art is by Ris.