Fast Close: In Conversation with Jennifer Clement

I met Jennifer Clement for the first time in 2011 while traveling with the Iowa…

Microeditorial: Empathy Overdose

When I was a girl, almost everything could bring me to tears: teasing, insinuations, insults,…

Newsletter #10

ASTER(IX) Winter 2016 We hope you’ve had a great start to the new year!  We are happy…

Microeditorial: I Am Not Muslim But

I am not a Muslim, but on my nüfus kâğıdı, the Turkish identity papers, as…

The Sea Shimmers Between Us

“A lternate street parking has been cancelled today.” Mina’s radio in Brooklyn and mine on…

abandoning the murder capital
(san pedro sula, honduras, 2013)

  retiring in the murder capital of the world adjust volume; some sound.   abandoning…

Television by Madhu Kaza

At a Christmas gathering at a cousin’s house in Maryland I mentioned to my five-year-old…

Microeditorial: Thank you, Monica: A Belated Elegy

What’s good in the higher hood, Monica? It’s me, Cabbage Patch, your supervisor from summer…

Bienvenidos Microrrelatos 2015

In 2015 Emily Raboteau’s microrrelato/flash fiction beat 35,609 entries from 149 countries for a $20,000…

Similitude / شبه / Similitud

  Similitude I was struck with panic when the car ran over her small body. As…