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 WernickeCh¿ K¿ - 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.