A family living under oppression hides their magic in a song passed down the generations. Take Up Thy Mother's Song is a story about when to choose survival and when to fight back, and when these are one and the same.

Content warnings: Graphic violence, blood, death of a parent

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Natasha King, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Danielle Baylor and produced by Melissa Ren, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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The Wolf is Piroska's sister, and they play with bombs in the backyard of their new home. Is Piroska wolf enough to survive?

Content warnings: Threat of violence, imagined bodily injury

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Varju Izzy, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Lily Aranyos and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting and directing by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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What happens when you come home and home is in pieces, and everyone is gone? Here, unruly spirits and old memories are dredged up in this act of reclaiming and healing.

Content warnings: Depictions of the aftermath of war, indirect mentions of death

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Anna Bendiy, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Danielle Bryn, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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After learning the true history of her land, a young woman returns to her isolated hometown to dispel the propaganda they were told. "Child's Tongue" interrogates our silences and complicity in colonial narratives.

Content warnings: Sexual harassment, discussion of war crimes, death of a parent, and heavily implied child abuse

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Monique Laban, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Roanna Cruz, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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An endless beam of light arrives and splits the sky. In the turmoil following the resulting global EMP, aging immigrant Demetri's family collapses and he must grapple for a place in a shattered world.

Content warnings: References to the death of a child

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Andrew Najberg, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Patrick Langner, 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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"Trees Can Have My Soul; In Return, Let Me Have My Grief" asks what a mother tongue is when survival requires assimilation.

Content warnings: Mild body horror, grief, death of a parental figure, racism

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Rukman Ragas, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Ahrreby Anandakumar 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 Armenian folklore, all werewolves are women. Cursed, punished, feared, shunned. But that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, does it, dear?

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Jolie Toomajan, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio edition read by Eva Roslin and produced by Melissa Ren, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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A deluxe riverboat welcomes the galaxy's wealthiest tourists to the drought-ridden Amazon — but no one's seen her mysterious captain. "The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle" is a flash exploration of colonization and survival.

Content warnings: Violence/death (offscreen), colonization, implied human trafficking

Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by L.M. Guay, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Aneli Rubio, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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