Issue #9

Some excerpts from Issue 9:

This is one of those basic story lines you mention: Man senses there is more to life and grabs at something beyond his reach. Will our stories be the same, though? Not at all. You might think the man is a fool for overreaching, and this "story" will emerge through your language, point of view, dialogue, structure, and so forth. I might think the man is a visionary or a saint, and the language, etc., will produce an entirely different "story" from the basic story line. .-Monica Wood

When you get to be forty or older, it becomes spiritually insufficient to go on constantly saying that the world as it's given to you is inadequate. It may be so, but if you're going to live this long, it's incumbent upon you to find someplace to stake a claim and some arguments on behalf of a way a good life might be lived.-Charles Baxter, interviewed by Stewart David Ikeda

But in the early morning, pre-dawn time, I'm just right there. No having to travel or arrive. Straight from dream state to the paper and pen, by way of a strong cup of coffee.-Melanie Bishop

Sometimes it would be nice, I think, just to be a normal person-optimistic, easygoing, and trusting, and not too obsessed with this business that I'm obsessed with-life and people, the world, and God, and so forth.-Thom Jones, interviewed by Jim Schumock