Issue Six Editor's Note

Welcome to Inner Worlds issue six.

I’m delighted to present these twelve stories, a rich mix of genres, moods, and styles, exploring aspects of our inner lives.

Inside you’ll find a cosmic guilt trip, a robotic avenging angel, and busload of ghosts, as well as characters encountering seductive portals, disturbing patterns, and the secret, sharp edges of reality.

Our cover art this time is Sea Dream by Dagny, in which strange yet familiar forms roll in unknown currents. Is it a seascape, or a starscape? An ocean without or within?

I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I have. Thank you for your support, which makes Inner Worlds possible.

Sarah Jackson

March 2025

Table of contents

• Ghosting Begets Haunting by Joelle Killian
• Never Odd or Even by Michael Bettendorf
• The Spellbook of the Moth Witch by Devan Barlow
• Mashrabiya by Ramez Yoakeim
• A Sign Hangs from my Hunger by Amabilis O'Hara
• The Astral Dream of Passage by Antoinëtte Van Sluytman
• Blood Calumny by Joe Koch
• Blue, by Ian Creasey
• Home on the Hillside by Emmylou Kotzé
• I am become death by Nishka Dasgupta
• Slivers by Risa Wolf
• Remembering the Hungry Ghosts by Emmi Khor

Cover artwork

Our cover for this issue is Sea Dream by Dagny.

Dagny has been a working artist for five decades. She has lived all over the world, worked with most of the different traditional art making materials, won awards, and had her work stolen from gallery walls. She does not participate on social media, by choice. Her real pleasure is standing at her easel, allowing her inner surrealist to dominate.