Issue Five | August 2013

Wavelengths Jena Reger

Those Tests S.L. Gilbow

Horticulture Cody T Luff

A New Man Rhea DeRose-Weiss

We’ll Have the House Red Robert Hanson

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From the Editor:

We’d be far more excited to unveil our Fifth Issue if it didn’t seem to bring out the worst in people. …Okay, so that was kind of harsh. Scratch that opening line—we are definitely excited for this latest issue. Seriously, it’s one of our best ever. Apparently we’ve been negatively influenced by this issue’s Inadvertent Theme. This time, each of our stories portrays characters who suffer through bitter tensions, sling wild insults at one another, and even succumb to physical violence. But it doesn’t end there. Strengthening the issue’s thematic coincidence, there is something inherently bizarre surrounding these frayed relationships, be it the initial cause of the animosity, the result that shortly follows, or the perspective through which all is told. All put together, this issue’s Inadvertent Theme is “Strange Hostility.”

We open our Fifth Issue with Jena Reger’s “Wavelengths,” a dark yet charming encounter with two would-be lovers on Spanish vacation, told from a most surprising point of view. Next comes S.L. Gilbow’s “Those Tests,” which relates the narrator’s firm and humorous disapproval of personality tests with repeating questions. Following that comes Cody T Luff’s “Horticulture,” a magical realist tale of an ordinary woman mysteriously transformed into the world’s foremost shrub-covered fashion designer. We then present “A New Man” by Rhea DeRose-Weiss, an account of a man and his mustache, the latter ultimately getting the best of its owner’s personality. Last but not least comes Robert Hanson’s “We’ll Have the House Red,” the story of a man caught between separate realities, one a life-threatening car accident, the other a restaurant where insults are best served cold.

Tea for the Read: Sweet tea. It’s summer, after all; add that to the emotional heat going on in these stories, and there’s no doubt you’ll want to cool yourself down. So grab a cup (but not too much ice—we don’t approve of things getting watered down) and enjoy our Fifth Issue.

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Cover art © 2013 Tasica Singleton