EDITOR’S NOTE

In a world where people who believe too strongly can kill people who don't, where people-out are cemented and cornered by people-in, you can't help but wonder: whatever happened to the yin and yang of life? Indifference has been allowed to sediment into a bank of intolerance. We do a whole lot of lip service to pow-wows over high-teas. Everyone is for freedom of expression…until that which is expressed unsettles someone's righteous throne. The teacup rattles. Farcical pinkies wobble. Blood spills over.  

Sometimes, literature is the reason behind the spill. Sometimes, literature is the reason we mop up and continue on. For a read with kinder eyes. A heart with more space than a thick skull.

This is the hope in today's SLR. To revisit a world where one is interpreted in many ways. To wait out for rains that purify, not drench; believing in the 'pinprick of time that will nail you black on white, 3 and 5 to the yet-to-come'…

MUNIZE MANZUR