Cold

The cold is a thing any woman can grow accustomed to. Lacey May learned how…

Backward Through the Story

I’m going to go backwards through this particular part of my story because I hate…

i watch papa bury our dog in a grave the size of a pond

  mauve, sprigs of oleander— ceilings shedding water stains in shapes of crooked eyes—my jaws…

Poor Girls’ Palace

Our mother had been gone now for eleven days. Her longest recess yet. Recess is…

derrame

  They call it the shoreline, el abismo que tiene poder too wide to hear…

Still Life

I lie and say this scar’s a gift from my cat. Three inches long, hypertrophic,…

An Introduction to the Monster (Novel Excerpt)

Thank you for that New Year’s Day. That day the monster was on my back.…

Ain’t That Good News

  Florence Holmes kept her knife in Psalm 94.  An eight-inch stiletto with a pearl…

Aster(ix) Journal Newsletter | March 2017

Aster(ix) Journal Newsletter | March 2017     Dear Aster(ix) readers, We are excited to…

Aster(ix) Newsletter | February 2017

      IN 1975 CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN performed “Interior Scroll”: she entered a performance space, undressed,…