Issue Twenty: Early Childhood – April 2023

Dearest Readers,
In the pages before you are tales of children, parents, grandparents, friends, and life in an early stage of our development: childhood.
Do you remember your childhood? Was it full of smiles and playing outside? Meeting new friends, or shyly introducing yourself at the front of the classroom? Playing in sandboxes or in puddles?
Childhood should be an age without worry, but it can also sometimes come as harsh lessons and difficult decisions. As adults we hope that children don’t grow up too quickly; we try and shield them from the world’s problems.
Some of the children in this issue run into those worldly problems, like bullies, hospitals, police, guns, or overbearing mothers. Others are gleefully unaware, still in those childlike days of bliss.
We hope that you can find a glimpse of your inner child in the poetry and prose here, in issue 20 of Deep Overstock.
Next issue, Deep Overstock ages and gets mature with Romance.

Yours, the forever childish,
Deep Overstock Editors