deal about managing a small magazine in the last year. But aside from these practical difficulties and successes, the theme of this issue seems to be one of death. Many of the stories and poems struggle to make sense of humans' short time on earth. Yet at the risk of sotmding sentimental, our little issue of death, so to speak, can only end with something like an aspiration to find meaning among a world politically fragmented and immdated with apathy. I would like to think that tl1e staff of Fugue, because of our work in producing a work of quality and sharpness, place ourselves, our readers, and our contributors, direclly on a path to solace and stability.
Scott McEachern Managing Editor
Spring/Summer 2002
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