Dear Readers,

Welcome to our Spring 2014 “GRAVITY” issue. We’re incredibly proud to present to you the wonderful and diverse array of voices in this issue, all complimented by the illustrative photography of the marvelously multi-talented Wiley Quixote and his team at Wiley Quixote Artworks.

Here at r.kv.r.y., we love words. We love to play with and explore words, and we took to the theme of GRAVITY in all its forms. A force of nature. A state of being. Seriousness. Importance. A universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other. We even mined the etymology and explored gravity’s relationship to heaviness, to the grave. You should find a lot to enjoy in this issue. I hope that you will take the time to explore it.

Our final themes for 2014 will be ENDANGERED (July) and APPALACHIA (October). Our January 2015 issue will be themed CAREGIVERS. And (a quick reminder) we will be closed to submissions during June, July, and August.

Yours in Recovery,

Mary Akers
Editor-in-chief