[All images copyright Suzanne Stryk, used here with permission of the artist.]

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our Spring 2013 “FAITH & DOUBT” issue. We’re incredibly proud to present to you the wonderful and diverse array of voices in this issue. Among the many fine pieces to enjoy, you’ll find a craft essay about hauntedness, a short story about strangers connecting on a bus, a poem about the surprise benediction of a forgotten Christmas cactus, and a Shorts On Survival piece about the last meal of a death row inmate.

Our illustrator is the talented and generous Suzanne Stryk who graciously allowed us to select from her body of creative work to illustrate this issue. If you like what you see, please visit her website here.

Thanks again readers, for giving r.kv.r.y. a portion of your day; and thank you writers, for continuing to trust us with your fine work.

The next theme we are accepting work for is our October “SHIPWRECKED” issue and in January 2014 we are planning an “ART OF RECOVERY” issue, illustrated with the paintings of old masters (ekphrastic work welcome).

Yours in Recovery,

Mary Akers
Editor-in-chief