In an RPG game, a Black avatar repeatedly attempts to survive an encounter with the police.

Content warnings: Violence, death, racism, hateful language, xenophobia

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by KÁNYIN Olorunnisola, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Isabella Tugman and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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In 2102, Michi goes undercover as a maid for a hacking job, while in 2030, Ryo sells his appearance to a tech company. Their lives intersect to expose the dirty laundry of neo-feudal futuristic Japanese elite society.

Content warnings: Classism, injustice

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Fumio Takano, translated by Sharni Wilson, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Justine Leah Hince and Alex Bankier, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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A storyteller in the distant future shows the reader different vantage points, in hopes they might "see" the web of connections between past and future, reader and story, responsibility and joy.

Content warnings: Acknowledgement of genocide, animal harm

Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Rae Mariz, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Maria Corcobado and produced by Grayson Norman, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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