Nº 05 | Short story | Science fiction | 4253 words | In a near future where permanent internet connectivity has been banned after leaving almost an entire generation blind, Vicente works the night shift at a care home for elderly people who once lived online. Their favorite pastime is playing a tactile version of Battleship, led by the sharp-tongued Santiago and newly invigorated by Olivia, a former YouTuber whose voice rekindles withdrawn Rosario’s ability to speak.
IMAGI
Magazine of speculative fiction
ISSN 2735-6582
Directed and designed by Donald Mc Leod Bravo
Edited by Martín Torres-Zuleta
Translated by Trinidad Montalva
This magazine, created in 2020 as part of the IMAGINISTAS publishing house, is a platform dedicated exclusively to women and the LGBTQ+ community who imagine strange futures, posthuman possibilities, and worlds of fantasy. Here you will find poetry, essays, and narratives that redefine the boundaries of speculative fiction, fantasy, science fiction, horror, and other subgenres that challenge our understanding of reality.
«Impossible Entities Updater» by Cristian Cristino
Publicado el 03/12/2025
Nº 04 | Short story | Science fiction | 3320 words | Milagros Marín, an Impossible Entities Updater on the verge of disgrace, gets one last chance: find Marla Araya, the legendary updater who has stopped imagining and may be dead. In a post-apocalyptic Chile sustained by NeoBioy simulations, Milagros travels to a strangely snowy Yumbel, where reality is starting to pixelate. There she discovers Marla’s corpse—and a second, untouchable Marla anchored to an old radio and a looping love song about the end of the world.
«Only needs a place» by Macarena Araya Lira
Publicado el 19/11/2025
Nº 03 | Short story | Horror | 2691 words | Macarena Araya Lira | Spanish version | Translated by Trinidad Montalva | A medical student obsessed with being the best goes to a bar after a grueling ER shift where she watched doctors save a nearly decapitated man. Sleep-deprived and collapsing, she crosses a frozen, hostile city trying to get home, but instead drifts back to the hospital, the only place that feels like hers. On the edge of delirium, haunted by childhood memories of failed resuscitation, she decides she must save the patient herself, pushing her exhausted body and faith in “never letting anyone die” to a brutal, catastrophic extreme.
«Rumor» by xelsoi
Publicado el 05/11/2025
Nº 02 | Short story | Horror | 3650 words | xelsoi | In a city ruled by fear and fire, a young man returns to his parents’ house on a night when everything seems normal—until they fail to come back before the alarm. Desperate, he goes out to search for them, confronting a neighborhood where danger is diffuse and the rules have changed. As he moves through dimly lit streets—past bonfires, vigilantes, and the echoes of lynchings—he discovers that the real threat isn’t always the one that’s announced.
«Vampire Woman» by Dana Lima
Publicado el 25/03/2025
Nº 01 | Short Story | Horror | 5776 words | Dana Lima | Argentina | Overwhelmed by the lack of money and her mother’s illness, Soledad gets a part-time job as a photographer in a brothel. Her sudden friendship with a Brazilian girl will lead her to learn that not all women return the same when they get lost in the darkness of the night.