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 yearsContinue Reading

Dearest Readers, These winter months of cold are dark give us the chills and goosebumps. Or perhaps that’s just the feeling of anticipation that comes when you have new prose and poetry to read. It’s been too long. Did you think we ghosted you? You certainly ghosted us and we’reContinue Reading

Dearest Readers, You’ve been knotty, haven’t you? Just a little? That’s ok. We’ve tied all of that up into a neat little journal here.Don’t worry, we won’t string you along. Please enjoy the knot pieces within Deep Overstock 22. We have poems (and a couple prose pieces) all about howContinue Reading

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 inContinue Reading

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 spendContinue Reading

Audio release party episodes can be found on the Deep Overstock Fiction Podcast. Cover: Alligator Pond by Carrie Salazarr David Agyei–Yeboah – authoritative mother; Fiery tongueAJD – The Perils of ThornviewArnold B. Cabdriver – My Son with the Twitchy AssholeJohn Delaney – NewbornDesiree Ducharme – Bad Math and SpellingPat DuttContinue Reading

Audio release party episodes can be found on the Deep Overstock Fiction Podcast. Cover: Concatenation XI by Catherine Eaton Skinner Maev Barba – Irving’s PlanChristopher Barnes – Propaganda 11-15Les Blond – I WANT TO REPORT AN IDENTITY THEFTLynette G. Esposito – Hacking Death; How I WonderLanay Griessner – The TimezioContinue Reading

Dearest Readers,So it’s come to this: a Deep Overstock clip show. But this issue is more than just a rerun of all seventeen of our past themes. Contributors have not just resubmitted, but reinvented and reimagined these themes in new ways. This issue really is a collection of new favoritesContinue Reading

Dearest Readers,Are you buzzing with excitement over this issue? Can you not wait to read the honeyed words that our contributors have written? Ready to comb through and find the sweet nectar that resides within?This issue we have queen bees, nurse bees, mason bees, Buddha bees, bees in fairy tales,Continue Reading

Letter from the Editors: Dearest Readers, Look up in the sky! There, above the shelves and moving through the clouds. Is it a bird? A plane? Or some sort of bird-plane hybrid? No, it’s the 16th issue of Deep Overstock: Superheroes! Thank you for donning your capes, your masks, yourContinue Reading