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SAND
Christina Wegener
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Editor’s Note
preface
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Editor-in-Chief
Designer
A birthday party in a blossoming garden with a big cake and lots of friends
Christina Wegener
Lucas Liccini
from school. A weekend on the Baltic Sea with an older brother and a few cousins. A hiking trip to the Alps with my father. All memories I wish I had,
Managing Editor
Administrative Manager
memories which others may have told me, memories that sneak up on me
Lyz Pfister
Catherine Plaut
from time to time and almost feel like my own. I don’t mind. They are nice.
Poetry Editor
Distribution Manager & Events
Julian Smith-Newman
Jane Flett
Fiction Editor
Media Manager & Events
Florian Duijsens
Asoka Esuruoso
Art Editor
Contributing Editor
both, “rough when it whips at your bare legs, but soft when you lie in it,” as
Yvonne Andreas
Danielle Janess
Erin Kelly puts it in “Leave Him with Me,” the story that opens this issue.
I might feel differently, however, about adding less sunny ones to the mix, such as those that surface in this issue of SAND. Some stories read like memories I am glad are not mine. Some are disturbing and pervasive as they reveal family estrangements and unsettling relationships between parents and children, as we witness life and death and the state in between. But not all of SAND #6 is like this, don’t worry. Remember that sand can be
This is what we like about SAND. Besides the Lee Hazlewood song, of course. Copy Editor
Founder & Fairy Godmother
Alex Bodine
Becky Crook
We are very excited about this issue and hope you will be too. It’s also exciting to know that everybody’s reading experience will be unique. You too will add your own layer of memories — true or false — to the words and images that compose this issue — and to the singular photography inserted
ISSN 2191-429X Published in Berlin Copyright Autumn 2012 Printing: Solid Earth Printed on Bilderdruck 115g
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into the last page of each copy, a lost or maybe rejected memory on the back of which yet another memory is shared with you. A happy one? One you actually might like to adopt? We don’t know... We would like to thank all of our readers, our contributors, and everybody who has supported SAND since its launch in May 2010. But most of all we would like to thank the founder of this journal, Becky Crook, a truly amazing person we will miss a lot when she leaves Berlin this year. Without her, SAND would have never become this beautiful publication.