Heartlines Spec, Issue 4 (Spring 2024)

The fourth issue of Heartlines Spec provides glimpses into how characters relate within a few moments in time. These stories, poems, and essays focus on long-term relationships—be they between friends, lovers, family or someone else entirely—and examine how connections can change or grow against a much longer timeline. Editorial by Jess Cho Short Fiction Blue Sunset by lae astra Starlight by R.H. Berry And When She Shatters by Kerry C. Byrne Trapped in This Body, I Wait for You by Akis Linardos Dandelion Lights by Lillian Lu The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life by Devin Miller Poetry The Milky Way Comforts Its Humans by Casey Aimer A renegade's diary entry in a debris field by Martins Deep the incomplete museum of you by Angel Leal Trinary by Amabilis O'Hara Mrs. Taffety Politely Answers The Door by C.C. Rayne Non-Fiction Cryptids of Ottawa by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia The Family You Lost Before You Had This Name by A.J. Van Belle Heartlines Spec is an online speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best. Issues are released three times a year.