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Letter from the Editors:
Dearest Readers,
Here we are, in the present, which was once the future, but is just as soon to be the past. When we asked you to send us future pieces you wasted no time in giving predictions, and omens, robots, societies that have crumbled, science gone wrong, science gone weird!
In this issue we tried something new and dare we say futuristic? We’ve divided the pieces up by theme: The Prophecy, The Fall, The Wasteland, and The Zenith.
“Dear 21st Century,” we have here prophecies flown from lighthouse fires, intelligences emerged from growing plastics. We are assembling hopeless wastelands delivered piece-by-piece in Amazon packages. But what’s “In the Cards?” A “Time Trilogy,” “The Pharaoh’s Orchid” and “A Future from the Probability Cloud.” You might say we are “Lost in Space,” “S.A.L.,” high on “Medicine 2180” or “Reefless Madness,” or that we are literary drones of “Jane, Inc.,” but might “Take Refuge in the Sky.” We will tell you reader, we speak to you from the “Dew Point,” from futures passed, from “The Hymn of Sweet Soul,” from “Summits and Depths.” Lend your ear, “My Dear Astronomer,” and we will tell you “The Price of Getting Old.”
And now we turn from the Future and try our hands at… Magic. Submit your magical piece by August 31st.
Yours, for now and always,
Deep Overstock Editors
(Cover art: Robert Eversmann)
Robert Eversmann – Mole drawings
The Prophecy
Amy Van Duzer – The Pharaoh’s Orchid
Karla Linn Merrifield – In the Cards
AJD – A Future from the Probability Cloud
John Grey – My Dear Astronomer
John Delaney – The Price of Getting Old
Kate Meyer-Currey – Summit and Depths
Kate Wylie – Dew Point
Timothy Arliss OBrien – Time Trilogy
The Fall
Arnold B. Cabdriver – Hyper-Intelligence
Michael Santiago – Boston, Light the Way
Bob Selcrosse – Blood of the Machine
Eric Thralby – The Collider
The Wasteland
Ben Crowley – Three Pieces
Bogdan Groza – S.A.L.
Nancy Hayes – Reefless Madness
Walter Moon – God’s In His Heaven, And All Orders Will Be Fulfilled
E.T. Starmann – Throat Sounds
Eric Thralby – The Student
The Zenith
Mickey Collins – I Hope
Lynette Esposito – Medicine 2180
Yuan Hongri, translated by Yuanbing Zhang – The Hymn of Sweet Soul
Karla Linn Merrifield – Lost in Space
Kate Meyer-Currey – Hawthorns
K. B. Thomas – Jane, Inc.
Jonathan van Belle – Dear 21st Century
Nicholas Yandell – Take Refuge in the Sky
Editorial
Editors-In-Chief: Mickey Collins & Robert Eversmann
Managing Editors: Michael Santiago & Z.B. Wagman
Poetry: Jihye Shin
Prose: Michael Santiago & Z.B. Wagman
Additional Copyediting: Vicky Ruan