by M. R. Robinson (Editor in Chief), Ash Vale (Editor in Chief), V. M. Ayala (Editor in Chief)
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.