Issue #2

From the Editor

I have often heard magazine editors and staff refer to an inbox full of submissions as “the slush pile.” I’ve never liked this phrasing, since it positions the average of all art ever created as slush, dregs, the empty tea bag left after the good stuff is gone.

So much of the magic in creating a magazine is reading submissions and watching an issue take shape. Themes emerge and converge across pieces. In this issue, a thread about steeping the same tea leaves multiple times appears in “Virgin Mary Ghost – August 15” and “Five Times,” both testaments to creation and ritual, both finding worth in what is too often thrown out.

I think the point of art is the creation of it. The picking up of the pen to write the same strokes again and again. Reuse. Resubmit. Rebrew.

To the love of drink.

Ashlyn Sharp

Editor-in-Chief

Cover design by Ashlyn Sharp featuring public domain artwork.