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Letter From the Editor

I have friends who tease me because I like the photos and videos of dogs and cats where someone has written them “talking” in...

Letter from The Editor

Dear Reader, Perhaps you know something of this. As part of my pandemic parenting requirements, I have been commissioned by my four-year old to tell...

Letter from The Editor

Sometimes a book comes to you too early. Perhaps the spite of being assigned 1984 in high school drains the novel of its power...

Letter from The Editor

It’s autumn 2020 and America is a held breath. America is a coastal town before a hurricane. America is a stifling house that needs...

Letter from The Editor

Readers, we live in an uncertain time. Yesterday, while driving to pick up a prescription, I felt an overwhelming sense of dread. I felt...

Letter from The Editor

  This letter marks one of my final acts as Sweet’s Nonfiction Editor, after being a member of the CNF team for five years. It’s...

Letter from The Editor

My husband prefers to wear—and prefers me to wear—light, bright colors rather than dark, somber ones. He thinks it affects the wearer’s mood, and...

Letter from The Editor

    Reader, you have found me in a melancholy mood.   Right now, I am in Thailand, in a city on the coast, and it is early...

Letter from The Editor

Sweet New Name, Same Sweet Magazine: The Birth of Sweet Lit For eleven years Sweet: A Literary Confection has published poems, essays, and comics that...

Letter from the Editor

The world is dangerous. People you love—you, yourself—could be snatched away, with or without warning. How do you cope, knowing this? This is the human...

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