Dearest Readers,

Stories have been around as long as humankind could speak and could ask about your weekend. Most of these stories have been lost to the ages of time and the hubub of the watercooler, but those that are still read and talked about hundreds and thousands of years after being thought of are truly classics. But Classic stories with a capital C are more than just an English class assignment.
What makes a Classic classic is up for debate. Generally, they are stories that have stood the test of time and have created an impact on culture. Calling something a modern classic is a bit of an oxymoron, because how can anyone know that something today will be considered a classic in the future? And yet here in your hands you hold a modern classic with Deep Overstock 24: Classics.
With riffs and commentaries on Classics that have come before as well as new poems and short stories which will shortly become classics in their own right, this is a Deep Overstock for the ages. These are the new literary crop that will one day sit among the greats, in our humble opinion.
As this issue come to a close, we shun the past and ask you for submissions in a totally different reality or future with our next issue: Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

Yours, tried-and-true,
Deep Overstock Editors

Cover: “Hercules & the old man of the sea” New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Christopher Barnes – Eadweard Muybridge Time 11-15 (MANUS, LUKE, HERBERT, ALBERTINE, SINCLAIR)
Roger Camp – Dancing Cherubs, Hotel de la Marine, Paris 1˚
John Delaney – Buying a Leather Jacket in Fez; Henna; The Pyramids; A Souvenir of Sand
David de Young – The Minor Keys
Lynette Esposito – Les Misérables Reviewed; Let Us Be the Steward of Hamlet; Van Gogh’s Night
Kate Falvey – Girls in Winter Triptych
Ken Gosse – Fourteen by Ten (a Sowhynot); Stonewalling (a Sonnet on Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”)
Michael Loyd Gray – Mr. Sammler’s Planet
Heather Hambley – Bluebeard’s Greatest Lie: A Creative Latin Composition Inspired by Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
Geoffrey Heptonstall – THE LADY OF THE RIVER; MEASURE RESTORED; THE SEAFARER
RJ Equality Ingram – SCHEHERAZADE BIDS GOODNIGHT TO HER DOORKNOB; SCHEHERAZADE BIDS GOODNIGHT TO HER SISTER; SCHEHERAZADE BIDS GOODNIGHT TO HER SONS
Aletha Irby – alexander grooming; town crier
Ivy Jong – First of the Slut-Shamed: A Hymn for Helen of Troy
Miles Kenny – To Have and To Hold
James B. Nicola – To William Wordsworth
Timothy Arliss OBrien – The Marble Halls of Arts & Letters – book 1
Craig Sautter – The Graduate Library
Janis Lee Scott – Camelot
Marianne Taylor – Advice on a Grecian Beach; At the State Fair; Burned Child; A Doorway; Medusa
Nicholas Yandell – Galehaut & Lancelot: A futuristic retelling of Arthurian legend

Editorial
Editors-In-Chief: Mickey Collins & Robert Eversmann
Classics Editor: Heather Hambley
Managing Editor: Z.B. Wagman
Poetry: Timothy Arliss OBrien, Jihye Shin & Nicholas Yandell
Prose: Robert Eversmann
Additional Copyediting: Simone Bouchey