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Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social · 17h

One Floor, One Phoenix is live in @othersidespec.bsky.social Issue 3! Thank you eds. MR Robinson and Ash Vale. I haven't had a story set so overtly in HK for a while now (title is based on 一樓一鳳) so it's nice to see this out in the world! Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/one-f...

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One Floor, One Phoenix - OTHERSIDE

The copper foundries and noodle factories have vanished. The dockyards have been torn down; now the Kwun Tong waterfront shimmers with glass-fronted blockchain startups and AI treasuries. The Horsepai...

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IT’S HERE! And YOU’RE GONNA LOVE IT. (If you love sapphic vampires and eldritch whales and ravenous wolves and strange miracles and heartbreak and hunger and desire and duty and devotion—) In all seriousness: thank you to our authors and our readers for being one of the best parts of my life 🧡

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Vampires! Eldritch whales! Pathetic lesbians! Weird science! Vengeful trees! Sadness! As always, this issue has everything you crave

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ISSUE 3 COVER REVEAL! As always, art is by the incredible @hvmator.bsky.social, who has once again absolutely nailed the vibes. Those golds and reds! These stories and poems! We can't wait for you to read this issue 🧡 You're going to love it.

OTHERSIDE Issue 3 cover art. The Wanderer is in the foreground staring up at ancient, weathered statues in a fantastic surreal red and gold setting. Last names of all the authors in the piece are listed at the bottom: Poole, Koo, Sirk Morató, Mori, Ten, Ross, Deyn, Mears, Yeh, Martinez Nocito, Schneider, Aurand, Fisher, Marcial.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In this new essay from Crystal Koo, Jeanette Winterson is shown to present individual agency as having little real impact on the world around the main characters in The Stone Gods. www.speculativeinsight.com Tag @crystalkoo.bsky.social

Purple background, white text, which says The paradox, of course, is that an ecological apocalypse nevertheless repeats itself in every space-time, unchanged by Billie and Spike's efforts at love or re-imagining society. "Agency in The Stone Gods" -- Crystal Koo

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you've read Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods - or even if you haven't! - this is a great essay about agency in the face of planetary-scale events. Read it now, for free! www.speculativeinsight.com Tag @crystalkoo.bsky.social

Purple background, white text, which says I'll explain how the novel's use of eternal return presents a world where large-scale cycles are indifferent to even the noblest of individual actions. "Agency in The Stone Gods" -- Crystal Koo

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Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yay, thank you Alexandra!! :D Very happy to have this out in the world!

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Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Thank you for the thoughtful recommendation, NM - really enjoyed reading what you got from it!

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Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excited to be in Heartlines Spec this March!

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

"I am the oldest daughter. To look after my family, I will have to bring a leopard home. Or be married off to a man with a string of leopard teeth laced around his neck. But I am not interested in men." Read 'Ghost Leopard' by @crystalkoo.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-ghos... #SFF

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Ghost Leopard by Crystal Koo

Here in Blazing Mound, we are not adults until we have brought home a leopard.

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Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Thanks for recommending Ash! 💕 I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Thanks so much @nomonbooks.bsky.social!!! 💕 Looking forward to reading yours!

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Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My short story Ghost Leopard is up at Inner Worlds! Big thanks to editor Sarah Jackson and excited to read the work of all these fine people

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