Asakiyume mita

My own story, "Andy Phillips and the Jones Sisters," is a little something I wrote inspired by Jean Ritchie's "Young Man Who Wouldn't Raise Corn."

Oh, cool! I love the story; I didn't know there was music behind it.

There are tattered mushrooms in the story, so I'm very fond of the cover of this issue.

I adore that photo. Especially on the cream-colored paper of the cover; it looks softly blurred like silver gelatin or charcoal. I'd hang it as a print on my wall.

I'm very, very happy to be sidling up next to Sonya Taaffe's "Like Milkweed," an achingly beautiful story of loss and hope and mystery

Thank you. You were the inspiration for the story, so I'm glad you like it.

It reminds me of this picture of a strange seaweed phenomenon.

. . . I did not know that was a thing. I shall have to do research.

Patricia Russo's "The Wild and Hungry Times"

I really like this story, actually. I'd love to see more set in the same world, although it's complete in itself; that sense of wider stories untold is part of what makes it so effective.

--the ur-mailbox after which your cyber mailbox styles itself.

I like the idea of the ur-mailbox. Somehow I imagine it has fangs.