The Future Fire [Issue 53, (April) 2020] ed. Djibril al-Ayad (Future Fire Net Press, 60pp, ebook, cover by Gwen C. Katz) [](Full Text)
Although billed as the “special nonfiction issue” all the items appear to be fictional.
47 · Mijara’s Freedom · Eleanor Glewwe · nv; illustrated by Cécile Matthey
an earlier version of this story with the title “Parvana’s Freedom”, was published in 2008 in Images, a student literary magazine of Edina High School in Edina, MN.
35 · The Abridged Excerpts from the Diary of a Corpse · Naethan Pais · ss; illustrated by Naethan Pais; inspired by a popular folktale from India known as “Baital Pachisi”, originally written in Sanskrit and compiled in the 11th century.
57 · Seams of Iron · Adriana C. Grigore · nv Common Bonds ed. Claudie Arseneault, RoAnna Sylver, C. T. Callahan & B. R. Sanders, The Kraken Collective, 2021; illustrated by Katharine A. Viola