Editor's Letter

Letter from the Editor for an open theme issue.

Letter from the Editor for the music issue

Editor's letter for the love issue.

This cycle's theme is food/cooking.

A letter detailing the beautiful work this issue for Halloween!

Our theme this cycle was “Nature,” and our beautifully creative authors took this in many more ways than just the “outdoors.”

My neighbor at my childhood home was a mechanic. He and I used to race on Ripsticks up our long shared driveway in the afternoons after school. Whenever I saw the light on and the garage door open to his shop, however, I’d throw my bookbag down and book it over to watch him tinker with a metal conglomeration in the hood of a car. I was truly in it to rifle through the tall, red, Craftsman toolbox he had. Wrenches’ sizes in those large cases were and are still fascinating to me.

When I was learning to read, my mom would curl up with me every night to recite a book. As my tired eyes scanned each line, I attached words on the page to sounds spoken, enraptured with it all.