Letter from the Editors:
Dearest Readers,
We love you. We want to take you on a date, woo you, bring you home to meet our parents and our cat. We’ll cover you in kisses, or hold your hand, or just sit across the table from you with a knowing look in our eyes. We’ll spend long days sitting in the same room reading to ourselves or each other in front of the lit fireplace, if that’s what you want. And you’ve told us what you want and we’re going to give you all that and more.
In the pages you hold near and dear to your heart we have tales of meet cutes, of awkward teenage loves, of crushes and lusts, of long-lasting relationships, relationships gone right and wrong, the love of another person, a physical thing, or idea. Treasure these stories and poems while they’re here. Let them sit with you awhile and share their desires.
After you have been sufficiently romanced, prepare for something that will string you along and tie you up in complications. Our next issue Knots will be open for submissions until August 31st. Don’t be afraid to be naughty.
Yours, until the curtain falls,
Deep Overstock Editors
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Listen to the pieces on the DO Fiction Podcast: Episode 1 on Spotify
RJ Equality Ingram – FINGERBANG!
Karen Sleeth – Eye Contact
Paul Hostovsky – Bicycle
Valerie Burns – Sexting at Sixty
Nidhi Agrawal – SPELL
Peggy Heitmann – Love Portrait at Sixty-Five
Diana Raab, PhD – United by Metal
Desiree Ducharme – A Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure: A Hot Dragon Tale
Gerard Sarnat – Spontaneous Combustion & Start Of Athletic-Artistic Romances
Anna Laura Falvey – This morning – Figurehead – Metric Apology
Rin Stone – Homemade
Lynette Esposito – Time – Nature – A Winter’s Night
K. B. Thomas – Emmanuella’s Revenge
Livio Farallo – kiss me
Francesca J. Sidoti – since then – good night
Nam Hoang Tran – Inducing the Light – Best Foot Forward – Disappointed for the Ages
Ranjith Sivaraman – On Those Moments
David de Young – Photo Taken in Times Square, 2010
Sarah Denison – A Romance in 300 Words
BEE LB – for you
Helga Gruendler-Schierloh – Chance or Destiny: A Personal Essay
Junix Seraphim – My mother has a singing voice you’d invite to your wedding – Arch of Aorta
Justin Ratcliff – Beloved
Cynthia Close – Here Comes Trouble
Livio Farallo – deep six
Sam Baldassari Jones – Riverfront
Pat Dutt – Odd Socks and Sinks in Chaos
Renee Williams – Dancing
Peggy Heitmann – Pay Attention
Justin Ratcliff – Beauty and the Beast
Nicholas Yandell – Harvey Wallbanger and a Slippery Nipple
Timothy Arliss OBrien – Is this a fucking love poem?
Kathryn Paulsen – Countless
Alixa Writes – Epilogue
Editorial
Editors-In-Chief: Mickey Collins & Robert Eversmann
Managing Editors: Michael Santiago & Z.B. Wagman
Poetry: Jihye Shin, Timothy Arliss O’Brien, Nicholas Yandell, Sarah Denison
Prose: Sarah Denison, Z.B. Wagman, Michael Santiago
Additional Copyeditor: Heather Hambley & Lorenzo Fusini