From the Editor

I have a confession to make: I don’t really like the ocean.

It probably has something to do with growing up in Arizona, far away from any water. I enjoy the coastline well enough – strolling down the beach, hiking up sea cliffs, or exploring tidal lagoons and surf-surrounded dunes. I love looking at the ocean; it’s just that I don’t want to be too close to it.

Getting in it is the worst. Swimming about, I can’t shake the feeling that somewhere out in the vastness there lurks a malevolent creature – something spawned in the sunless canyons miles deep, forever pressed by the weight of the world – …more

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