issue 43

March: lions and lambs. Mysteries that rise, peek, slither, creep to the surface amid the wind and the rain and rag-tag, dying flurries of snow. The steamy, bluesy remnants of a long, hard winter, not quite ready to commit to the inconstant sun.

The stories in this issue of VR are very March: Scar Tissue; The Missing Girl-mysterious, a bit strange. The baffled steam of The InBetween Girl; Soft; Whores. The blues riffs licking at To Send, wailing through Dream Twins. Red Bird-more wounded lion than avis. Only when we reach Retaining Wall do we get a glimpse of the lamb, shaking herself free from a 20-year winter of What If in the harsh new sunlight of...Social Media.

It's quite the mix. Nuanced, shadow-haunted. Edgy. Weird.

We love it.

We think you will, too.

Happy? March.