梦幻泡影。。。A dream in the shadows.

Submissions to Sine Theta Magazine's 36th issue, themed “MIRAGE 幻,” are officially open! Thanks to our Patreon subscribers, Sine Theta Magazine is a paying publication—all contributors will receive a $10 USD honorarium.

Is that the flutter of wings, or just a trick of the light? A candle flickers, the shadows grow like long-limbed trees. A screen flickers on, broadcasts new worlds. Do your eyes deceive you? Who can say. Log on and slip into another persona, another life. For our 36th issue, we’re exploring the idea of the mirage – Ideas and images blurring, refracting, reflecting, reproducing. Share with us your dream diary, your visions of ecstasy. What lies just beyond the horizon? Anything is possible, and not everything is as it seems.

Submissions are due SUNDAY, 7 DECEMBER 2025, at 11:59 PM PDT to sinethetamag@gmail.com for full consideration of your work(s). Visit our submissions guidelines for more details. Feel free to DM or email us with any questions you may have; we welcome pitches sent ahead of the deadline!

Those submitting may wish to consider the following prompts:

the society of the spectacle by guy debord / fantasies - daydreams / alter egos - mistaken identities / RPGs, TTRPGs, and LARPing / desert - oasis - thirst - food desert / sociotechnical imaginaries / cinema / counterfeiting - replicas - fakes / smoke - steam - haze - shadow / las vegas - casinos - gambling - adult entertainment / heists - thievery - oceans 11 / dance - theatre / optical illusions - mirrors - hypnosis - prisms - refraction / celebrity - parasocial relationships / idealisation / surrealism / bian lian - internet avatars - self-inserts / phantom pain / deepfakes - hallucinations - catfishing / doubles - doppelgangers / fata morgana - will o' the wisp - superstitions / rainbows - oil slick - aurora borealis - refraction - fermat's principle of least time / dream visions - religious ecstasy - ecstasy of st. teresa