Status Updates From Astra Magazine, Ecstasy: Is...

I’m reading this out of order but the story by Fernanda Melchor and by Dahlia de la Cerda are very good and make me wanna read more modern MX writers

getting back into this after i saw the devastating news that the magazine has been cancelled ://

“In a fantasy, my friend could have made himself immune to broken glass. I could have made the Portland lawyer unmarried. But that somehow feels like cheating. A frictionless daydream feels like vapor. There's more traction when you let reality poke through the dreamlike splinters emerging from the grain of the wood, catching in the palm.”

"We can't imagine our lives without the unlived lives they contain."

“Once upon a time I met a stranger and in my mind we lived an entire life together. Not just one life, but many lives. Not just once, but many times.” leslie jamison immediately calling put my daydreaming habits 🫢