Issue No. 9

Five pieces this week, and between them they keep circling the same question: what survives, and in what form.

A ruin that is more perfect broken than it ever was whole. Death, in the old alliterative measure, meeting something it cannot swallow. A life recalled in a single minute. A narcissus that will not wilt. Two Titans who cannot die, in love.

A note on timing. There are now more of you than our mailer will send to in a single day, so this issue goes to the first hundred subscribers today and to everyone else tomorrow. If this reaches you on Monday, that is why. We are moving to something larger shortly.

I have also put a message from me on the About page, on why I started the review and what it is for: theastyanax.com/about

Submissions for our first print issue, The Astyanax Quarterly, close on 31 October, four weeks from today.

Hector Hallett, Founder & Editor-in-Chief