Alexandra Ye

Feb 29, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Aozora Brockman |Alexandra Ye |Lara Longo

The family lore goes like this: a fish fell from the sky. Then there was another, and that one was me. And what kind of fish was she? someone would ask, egging my father on. He’d grin. A sel-fish, he’d say, what else? As if this were the only truth there ever was. Here’s what really happened: I was supposed to be a twin but then I ate her. It. Absorbed it, for nutrients, in like the first trimester. Dad got a kick out of that. Let’s never let her live that down, he said to Mom. And they haven’t.

Dec 15, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Mary Pappalardo |Alexandra Ye |Mimi Wong

Alexandra Ye’s story “IOU” was published in The Offing’s Fiction department on February 23, 2023. Q&A conducted by Mary Pappalardo, Fiction Editor. Our Patreon supporters received early access to the interview with The Offing contributor Alexandra Ye. The Offing pays our contributors, and we appreciate the help of all of our supporters in sustaining our work.

Jul 27, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Liwen Xu |Lara Longo |Alexandra Ye

In the end, God kept the Heavens but not the Earth, collapsing empires and skyscrapers upon skyscrapers stacked high in Hong Kong, New York, Dubai, and other cities we’d forgotten the names for. All the lights of Earth dimmed, shut down, and descended into a darkness as vast as starless nights. In the end, God lifted us up into the sky, perhaps on arks, perhaps in fever dreams, and we remained asleep as we floated up, dreamless and still.