Dear Readers,

Thank you for picking up the latest issue of Deep Overstock. We hope that these pieces will sufficiently warm you up on cold winter nights.
In this appropriately-appetizer-sized issue about soups and stews, we have a multitude of ingredients supplied by you. We have recipes, as well as art, poems and short stories all about how soups can fill you up and make you feel good, or not.

But don’t fill up just yet! Our next issue is sure to be even more appetizing as our editors have picked some of their favorite past themes for Staff Picks. Please send us your pieces for any of the following themes: Fairy Tales, Paranormal Romance, Dreams, Horror, Structures, Animals, Beekeeping, Hacking, or Classics by February 28th!

Your grateful cooks,

Deep Overstock Editors

Cover: Louis Dalrymple. Who Is in the Soup Now, from Puck, 1889. The Art Institute of Chicago.

Susan P. Blevins – LOVE-MADE SOUP; STEW
Roger Camp – Italian Pasta (Sedani rigati) Soup Pan
Salena Casha – A Short Album About Love
John Davis – Curried Peanut Soup
Emily – EWOK VILLAGE
Lynette G. Esposito – Bean and Ham Soup; God’s Soup; Psychic Soup
Frank Gallivan – How to Make Miso Soup (The Hero’s Journey)
Alina Kroll – Soup Recipe for Sharing with Roommates
Joan Mazza –Abundance; First Sunday in September; Moving In
Janet McCann – OATMEAL POEM; PLUM SOUP
Karla Linn Merrifield – This is My Brain
Diana Raab – When all is cold
Elizabeth (Betty) Reed – THE SOUP I INHERITED
Julian T Stites – Soup Story
Marianne Taylor – Goulash
Colette Tennant – For the Missing Ones
Rachel Turney – Japanese Soup
Nicholas Yandell – The Ramen Shop

Editorial
Editors-In-Chief: Mickey Collins & Robert Eversmann
Soups & Stews Editor: Robert Eversmann
Managing Editor: Z.B. Wagman
Poetry: Timothy Arliss OBrien, Jihye Shin & Nicholas Yandell
Prose: Robert Eversmann
Additional Copyediting: Sarah Denison