Editor’s Note
It’s strange how when it comes time to put together an issue, the right pieces seem to assemble themselves into some coherence. Or maybe it’s that we are looking for threads that connect them: how they communicate with one another. Or maybe it’s indicative of something bigger: that we’re obsessing over similar themes in this same time we’re living through.
This issue, it feels like death is all around me, in words. And it is here in these words too: this tenth issue is my final one as an editor for Vast Chasm. Years ago, this journal was a seedling of a dream: to curate art with my friends, discover writers we admire, and amplify them as well as we could. We have done that, and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to do this alongside my friends. And it has been a dream. I have had some of the most joyous reunions at AWP with people who I met first through the words they write. Reading your work—often aloud with my friends—has been an honor and a privilege.
I am sure Vast Chasm magazine will continue to accomplish all those goals we set out with, knowing Mike & Jen will remain at the helm. The death of one phase often means the birth of another. Sometimes an end gives way to a new beginning. I found that in these pieces, and I’ve found that in this community: a constant becoming into something new, something slightly different, us a little more knowledgeable and maybe even courageous. I hope that for all of you: that you continue becoming the person you’ve dreamed of being, a little at a time, or a lot all at once, never giving up on who you know you will be one day.
Table of Contents
| Title | Genre | Writer |
| Foreign Body | Flash CNF | Lauren Harr |
| The Only Eternal Peace I Dream Of | Poetry | Laura Marden |
| Things We Do for Loved Ones | Flash Fiction | Thad DeVassie |
| Because you didn’t hit me | Flash CNF | Marina DelVecchio |
| Some Opposites Are Easier to Understand | Flash Fiction | Sudha Balagopal |
| Is the universe laughing with me or at me? | Poetry | Patrick Schiefen |
| Visiting Hours | Poetry | Elena Zhang |
| Connections | Interactive | Vast Editors |
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