Editor s Note

There is something magical about putting a new issue together. After months of combing the beach, we finally get to dump our buckets on the kitchen table, brush the sand off the treasures we've collected, and arrange them in a shadow box. Ideally, the end result will showcase each writer's unique charms while creating a transcendent whole in which individual stories and poems are enhanced by each other's effects.

One theme that emerged in Issue 112 is vision, both in the literal sense of sight and in the deeper sense of perception and an artist's imagination. There are people gazing inward and peering outward, people regarding the traumas of the past and the possibilities of the future without blinking, people looking in the wrong places and seeing too much or not enough.

With this in mind, we invite you to ogle at the wonders on display. But watch out, because some of them might be staring back at you.

— Laura Garrison