All Worlds Wayfarer: Issue 14

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 vernal equinox 2023 issue—one rippling with change, comfort, and courage—includes 13 stories spanning the speculative fiction spectrum:

An Echo of the Desert in the Sky by Erin Darrow
"As she closes her eyes to rest, her fingers graze the scarlet feather. An impossible last chance to make amends."

Gremlin by Gerri Leen
"But the more the gremlins gave, the more they took. And people got addicted."

Dance of the Pariah by J. M. Turner
"We hunger. The wulfengeist, the wicked spirit of the wolf, growled within her."

Our Forests by Anna Ziegelhof
"For the first time in twenty years, what I heard and what I saw were aligned."

Strange Keeper by Cassandra Sarah Pegg
"I know that I sound like a madman, and perhaps I have become one since, but when I first saw her, I was entirely sane."

Rebirth by Hien Nguyen
"'Chosen?' My teeth clattered, the muted clang echoing against this foreign skull."

Die Metzgerai by M. Maponi
"I won’t go into the details of the procedure, which involves a lot of cutting and sawing and pulling to carve out oddflesh as cleanly as possible."

Beacon by Chrissie Rohrman
"Don’t stray too far from the entry marker of a strange world. And never, ever travel unless you know you can get back."

Here, There, Everywhere: A Journey to the Middle of Nowhere by Lisa Fox
"'Nowhere,' the man repeated. 'It’s what remains when you’re neither Here nor There. When you’ve already been Everywhere.'"

Ancestor by Evangeline Giaconia
"But we walk together. Our toes and arches and heels match. The galaxy of her tiny footprint pulses out to meet mine."

We'll Always Have St. Margaret's! by Lara Slabber
"Anything to distract from the corpses dotting the campus that still donned the pale blue dresses that defined the school’s uniform."

What Could Be More Beautiful Than Feathers, Lace, and Fairy Lights? by Jean Strickland
"Soon, I will be judged again for my sense of beauty, but I now doubt my ability to know what is too strange."

This ebook edition will also include an exclusive bonus story by editor Geri Meyers.

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