All Worlds Wayfarer: Issue 16

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Explore Evocative Imagined Realities

All Worlds Wayfarer is a quarterly literary magazine specializing in character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. We celebrate stories that take readers on tours through wonderful and terrifying realms, evocative visions, and eye-opening new lives. When our readers come home, they should return ever so slightly changed for having made the journey. After all, the most powerful stories transcend, enlighten, and entertain at once.

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” -Plato

Our summer solstice 2023 issue—one full of incredible secrets and impossible choices—includes 13 stories spanning the speculative fiction spectrum:

SAGE by Chisom Umeh
"Humans are weird like that. They enjoy living, but for some reason they imagine that other beings do not feel the same way about themselves."

The Daughter of Naash by Hussain A. Ayoub
"I was the first to take the oath. Rage blinds me. Betrayal stings still this heart that lives on sorrow. Regret, in doing so, for I have condemned my sisters to wander the never-ending path."

Chirality by Ash Howell
"When you woke again, the knife was ready on the table."

Emergence by P.L. Salerno
"Your eyes are deep pools of black, no trace of the brown they used to be."

Where Sorrow Dwells by Alethea Lyons
"'There are only two ways out of my lair: through the darkness or through the light.'"

Thoughts of Ink by Barry Charman
"Her words would always be there, even if she erased them. The mind didn’t easily forget."

Eyes as Bright as Stage Lights by D’vorah Shaddai
"All she ever wanted to do was put Monticello in her taillights, and that also seemed to be all she could never manage."

The Tun by Anne Wilkins
"When they sent us away the science was still elementary, the mechanics rudimentary, the pods just prototypes. None of it was ready."

Run Away and Join the Circus by Tiffany Sanerd
"My hands flailed between us. The edge of the spotlight caught the motion and cast beastly shadows on your bare skin."

Midnight Mirrors by Rowan Rook
"Joey’s muscles burned with tension, begging him to look away. But he was practiced at only staring straight ahead—fear be damned. Nothing’s going to happen!"

An Fear Dearg by Keira Reynolds
"'But the Red Man is not a servant, to bow to the wishes of human folk. I alone decide who I will punish, and who I will reward.'"

The Unstoppable March by Jeffrey A. Ballard
"One month. One month until Seldon turned eighteen and Aldred lost him."

The Charade of 1812 by Camden Rose
“'Are you scared?' you say, and motion toward her expression with your free hand."

The Will of the Wisps by Angela Teagardner
"All she wanted was to somehow erase that night last fall—the memory and the consequences. Magic could do it, if the witch were real."

Venture beyond the mundane with the best of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and magical realism.