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Original homepage triptych presentation of each publication excerpt with its companion pieces, preserved below. Click on publication title to read, image to view larger version (opens in new browser window), Editor’s Note to learn about the issue, and Makers to view companion pieces.
May 2021 | Issue #9
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. —Anaïs Nin
April 2021 | Issue #8
The line of words fingers your own heart. It invades arteries, and enters the heart on a flood of breath; it presses the moving rims of thick valves; it palpates the dark muscle strong as horses, feeling for something, it knows not what. —Annie Dillard
March 2021 | Issue #7
My sufferings are part of my self and my art. —Edvard Munch
February 2021 | Issue #6
There is just no escaping the fact that there is a tight relationship between the words we use, the type of thoughts we can think, and what we can believe to be true about the world. —Sam Harris
January 2021 | Issue #5
Above all, don’t forget. Commit everything – each blade of grass, each teary-eyed child, each unmarked grave – to memory. Then when you survive and are older, tell your story. —Andrew Lam
December 2020 | Issue #4
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others. —Sherwood Anderson
November 2020 | Issue #3
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. —J.R.R. Tolkien
Editor’s Note
Makers
“Sickly Sweet Companion”
October 2020 | Issue #2
Writing is a form of prayer. —Franz Kafka
September 2020 | Issue #1
Listen to me. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don’t matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake. —Jean Rhys
Editor’s Note
Makers
Author Q&A with Jefferson Navicky
February 2020 – Sample Issue
