HEXFILED
Literary Magazine · SF & Speculative Fiction
Issue 04 is live. Seven works on what defines an identity. Read free, in full.
Issues 01–03 also in the archive · read them free
Literary Magazine · SF & Speculative Fiction
Issue 04 is live. Seven works on what defines an identity. Read free, in full.
Issues 01–03 also in the archive · read them free
Issue 04 · The Fourth Emergence
The Fourth Emergence brings you seven works on what defines an identity: fiction, flash, and the fourth entry from the Parallel Biome.
The Parallel Biome · PB-0004-HEX
I Am Not An Asteroid John XavierAlso 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.
Also Available · May 25, 2026
Six works at the boundary of the biological and the artificial.
Issue 04 · Aug 25, 2026
Seven works on what defines an identity: fiction, flash, and the fourth entry from the Parallel Biome.
HEXFILED publishes monthly. Issues 01 through 03 are also free in the archive. Submissions are currently open.
Issue 04 is live. Available free, in full.
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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.
A HEXFILED Serialized Sub-Issue
The Parallel Biome
Recovered evidence from alternate timelines
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