Literary Magazine · SF & Speculative Fiction
Issue 05 is live. Five stories including a novella on what coalesces when worlds merge. Read free, in full.
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Issue 05 · The Fifth Coalescence
The Fifth Coalescence brings you five stories including a novella on what coalesces when worlds merge.
Also Available · Aug 25, 2026
Seven works on what defines an identity.
Also Available · Jul 25, 2026
Seven works on beginnings, becoming, and what emerges when everything starts over.
Also Available · Jun 25, 2026
Seven works on transformation, from one state to another.
Issue 05 · Sep 25, 2026
Five stories including a novella on what coalesces when worlds merge.
HEXFILED publishes monthly. Issues 01 through 04 are also free in the archive. Submissions are currently open.
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Our Focus
HEXFILED started because the boxes did not fit. You cannot fit a hexagon into a square. It sits uncomfortably between shapes. Rougher around the edges than a circle. Less rigid than a square. Even given the same perimeter, a hexagon holds less area than one and more than the other. It occupies an unstable middle ground, never fully realized on either side.
When a story straddles this liminal in-between, it risks invisibility. This is what we collect. This is what we file away.
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