The Editor

My name is Zane Beshirs and as the editor of this magazine I feel compelled to share with you my story. I was born in rural North Texas and I still live and write in Texas. Until I found literature and writing to be such a strong passion in my life, I wandered. I was aimless and lacked any sort of vision for my life.

All the while, I enjoyed immersing my mind in stories of fiction, poetry, and history. Reading in my early years, I started up the staircase of imagination, my care for stories just blooming and lighting the way to the plane of writing. I read wonderful books that scared me, strengthened me, questioned me, they moved me.

On seeing how literature could define and shape how we perceived and interacted with the world, I wanted to be a part of that movement. I started writing because I believe literature can move us like nothing else in the world. The stories we tell to others are the stories we tell ourselves. The movement of language imitates us, celebrates us, and has the power to unify us.

Currently I am working on three novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of poetry. I want to foster a community that unifies artists in a celebration of all the things that divide us despite those who stand against us.

After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
  After the frosty silence in the gardens
  After the agony in stony places
  The shouting and the crying
  Prison and palace and reverberation
  Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
  He who was living is now dead
  We who were living are now dying
  With a little patience
— From The Wasteland by T.S Eliot