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

i think i'm enjoying this issue more than "Filth"... that one had incredible pieces but also very questionable ones. "Ecstasy" is more consistent in its quality even if the highs aren't as higher (very hard to top "Julie" by Mariana Enríquez but alas! these are goated too!)
"Dreamers in Broad Daylight: 10 Conversations" by Leslie Jamison is drop dead amazing and the comics are beautiful

i'll nevr be able to let go of the pain of this magazine only ever releasing two issues u sick sick cruel world

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."