I think sometimes writers conflate short stories with small stories. Stories have to be focused and quick, critics seem to suggest. But what I love about short stories is just how big they can be within a small space. How they can implicate everybody while being about somebody. The stories in this issue of Aster(ix) are big stories told in small spaces, by writers from all over the world.
1st March 2017 Lusaka. Madam, Re: Resignation – Prisca Banda Madam, many months now, you…
As a woman of color in the academy, I do more labor than my white colleagues. But then I have guilt that my mother is laboring more than me. And I ask myself, “Was it worth it? Is it worth it?” In the fight, you have to remember to rest.
Exciting fiction, insightful memoir, and captivating poetry, all by contemporary AAPI writers.
For a long time, I stayed in a prison by the sea surrounded by ramparts.…
“Poetry, language, feels like a practice—a study—of relation. For me, ecology is the root of all relation.” A conversation with Jhani Randhawa and their debut collection, TIME REGIME.
I. The plain truth is that was the bitch’s name: Quimbamba. My brother showed up…