Rewrites 2013

From the Editor Read.

So many of us take for granted what a gift it is to be capable of deciphering what these symbols mean. Letters, combined to make words, which translate into sound. You, dear reader, are capable of translating these symbols into a language you recognize and I urge you to keep reading, to cultivate a love and appreciation for this gift. Picking up this magazine, be it because someone forced it upon you, because you genuinely look forward to our annual publication, or for the first time, shows that you at least take some pleasure in the act of reading.

I work in a library, and every day I try to find a child who does not yet know the joy that reading can bring them and to introduce them into a world that promises opportunity, that promises adventure. With this magazine I hope to do the same for you.

In this magazine you will find forty-one works all created by students, staff, and alumni of Atlantic Cape Community College. I welcome you to read through each work; it was a labor of love, by the staff and the contributors to the magazine. We decided for the theme of Crescendo, one I hope you find, as the works increase in sound, and then slowly settle back into a world of quiet.

I will take this time to thank you, the reader, for supporting this publication, the staff who worked hard to insure that the best works could be found in this magazine, for my co-editor Isaac, and for the friends I made this semester.

I also want to thank Lauren M. Fonseca and Rich Russell for their help and support these past semesters, and for their good faith in me, however foolishly it was placed.

I hope that you, the reader, continue to pick up this publication in the years to come and that the binding is well used and frequently creased.

Thank you for reading, with much love Erica Villani Co-Editor of Rewrites 2013