EDITOR’S Note

A FEW WORDS AND A FEW WORDS MORE

THIS IS WHERE I ADMIT THAT I STARTED THIS NOTE A DOZEN times or more over the past ten days, each attempt producing only a few feeble words surrounding the subject of inspiration, like water circling the drain, before I falter, fade, and go still again. This might be the most difficult, by which I mean the most exacting, writing prompt I have ever felt the obligation to follow: Write about inspiration while the horrors of war, its all-consuming violence and suffering, reverberate across the distance like a thunderclap through the broken sky. A few words, then a few more ineffectual words, then silence. I’ll never know enough to make sense of war. It ends in silence, every time. When I don’t know what to think—or do, or say, or…

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