Collection

Issue Four: Her Story

As She Crafts Her Life’s Tale
[English Edition, August 2025]

All works in this collection are written and translated by women.
Total Word Count: 78.5k words

Editorial Director: Lynn Sun
Curator: Eleblue, Jialin, Ursula, Yulei, Kane
Translation Editor: Shin, Ruxuan, Mark, JX
Copywriter: Ruxuan
Book Cover and Layout Design: Ruxuan

Second Skin

After the sex trade was legalised, sex workers are made to wear a “second skin” which restricts the number of occurrences a worker can perform sexual acts. It was no different from other jobs, Qi Yue thought. In a turn of events, she exceeded the “sex quota” by accident and it led her down an unfortunate path.

One Day, Man Mothers

One day, a strange alien virus descended Earth, and men can now become pregnant! Zhang Yaozu finds himself blessed with a boy he and his parents have been wanting, so he decided to give birth to the child despite the pains of childbirth. What awaits him are the struggles he never knew his wife had to go through.

Do Virtual Personas Dream of Digital Moons?

Lin Shan and her lover was drifting apart. A friend suggested for them to try out the virtual persona technology—to which Lin Shan grew attached to his virtual persona. She eventually discovers that the line between reality and illusion is blurrier than expected.

Once, There

Through “personalised movies”, the MC attempts to stimulate the brains of vegetative patients by having them relive their lives. Until he meets Ye Tang, of whom he found barely any trace of her life, and he sets out on a journey to find out what happened to her.

As She Begins to Write the Future

Feminist ideals are tied to science fiction because the equality we seek is an imagination of the future. How have female sci-fi writers from Mary Shelley to Kim Choyeop broken the boundaries and brought forth new ideas despite a lack of audience in the genre?

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