March 31, 2007 Dedicated Carve readers, It's with both great excitement and intense anxiety that I present the newest issue of Carve Magazine, indeed the first one in nearly six months. What a long wait, and what a long time for the pressure to mount. As always, your patience is appreciated, but now I hope it's rewarded. These stories, at first, may not be what you expect. A son discovering his father's lustful obsession for a teenage neighbor; a Yugoslavian woman who finally breaks free from the prison of her husband's shop; an apathetic man who is helpless to his emotional wife; an electrician who is trying to find himself within a place called Paradise Cove; and a man whose dreams are both erotic and destructive...these are stories that run the gamut from poetic or graphic to beautiful or heartbreaking. But what they all have in common, and the very reason I chose them for this new issue, is that they are all honest fiction. The emotions are real, the jeopardy of the characters are palpable. There may not be any fairy-tale "happy endings" (who wants that in lit fiction anyway?), but there are moments of grace, of reflection, of awe. I have spent much time with these stories. I hope you do, too. Sincerely, Matthew Limpede
Editor, Carve Magazine
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