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We are thrilled to share our Spring 2024 issue, Bending, curated by Angie Cruz with drawings by Laylah Ali and writing by Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Julian Delgado Lopera, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Courtney Faye Taylor, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chinelo Okparanta, Shana L. Redmond, Lilliam Rivera, and Alejandro Varela.
We are thrilled to share the second part of our tenth anniversary double issue, highlighting some our best short fiction and interviews.
Five The 300-balloon arch is twenty-five feet long, a candy-colored display of peach, gold and…
Now that 2022 is coming to a close, Aster(ix) editors and contributors picked their favorite…
Do not. Do not, I repeat, throw trash in the cans in front of Building…
The day the baby arrived, it rained so hard the streets flooded and the taxi…
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.
Truths yet to be known, that: If the dead can indeed wake up, there’s only…
1st March 2017 Lusaka. Madam, Re: Resignation – Prisca Banda Madam, many months now, you…
Ivan was the one who put the thought into her head. She would have been…