soloist

So I was good with bleeding, respecting it as admonition, as the body’s means of telling a truth. Bleeding, how the body keeps its contract with honesty.

For years before my tío Junior died, I wondered if he knew

Did he suspect when he watched me shoot hoops in the park? Or when he told me, a million times, to pull up my baggy jeans?

Import-Export

Two days before she gives birth, the 38-year-old watches a breastfeeding video from a national health institute, but it’s hard to practice without a baby.

For Something Real

The fractures, herniation, and slippages somehow become tolerable, managed through an elaborate system of forgetting and excusing and stores of fortitude that might otherwise be dedicated to breaking that which breaks us.

The 10th Anniversary Issue, Part II: Fiction & Interviews

We are thrilled to share the second part of our tenth anniversary double issue, highlighting some our best short fiction and interviews.

House Call

katharine is getting her monthly brazilian wax $$ she isn’t seeing anyone $$ so this…

The One-Eyed Bat!

The guy I’m dating in Ann Arbor is The One-Eyed Bat! He wrestles with a…

Dalila (English)

Translated from the original by Noah T. Myers After the divorce, I decided to move as…

The 10th Anniversary Issue Part I: Poetry & Nonfiction

Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue.

list of things to say instead of “i’m fine”

my blood moves like tectonic plates: so slow one might not notice, but notice first,…