All Worlds Wayfarer: Issue 17

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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 winter solstice 2023 issue—one searching for adventure and connection alike—includes 13 stories spanning the speculative fiction spectrum:

Soulbound by Bret Chandler
"'It means you’re bound to somethin’, somethin’ bigger than you. Somethin’ that carries you, like the music.'"

Life in Our Solar System by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle
"Humans can be kind and cruel, not so different, really, from the rays on Jupiter."

Finding Love by Frances Koziar
"As I had once dreamed of finding love elsewhere, now I dreamed of the love I’d left at home."

Walls by Carmen Tudor
"Maybe she remembers? That would be enough. That would be everything."

The Fleeting Life of an antibodyBot by Madeehah Reza
"This is when you wake up. You cannot see anything, the blood is too thick, but you can feel."

Little Bird by Jeffrey L. Short
"It all seemed too easy, to die."

Luz by Shelly Jones
"He carried the earth with him, just as she clutched the shinies in her talons, Luz thought."

A Time for Silence by Elizabeth A. Allen
"He shrugged with a cockeyed smile. 'It doesn’t change the fate of the world, but it makes things a little better—you know?'"

Arms Cold with Gravedirt by Deborah L. Davitt
"We’re getting the hang of this. It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Or maybe a child to raise a graveyard."

Two Wings by Anna Madden
"'Take them,' Serac said, picking out memories like lots."

Lossless by Kolya Osinoff
"Whichever way the protocols bend, they end up in a lossy image, one of us compressed and contorted beyond the other’s recognition."

A Thread to Remember You By by D.A. Straith
"Then I twist the fluff into the thinnest piece of fingering yarn and tie it around my finger. It’s not enough, but it will have to be."

The Left Hand that Saved the World by Elisabeth Shenher
"Whenever Mara was asked about the day she saved the world, she would always turn the question back on the asker: do you know what it’s like to grasp a star in your palm?"

This Kindle Edition will also include an exclusive bonus story by one of the editors.

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