Mickey Collins

Robert Eversmann

Are you buzzing with excitement over this issue? Can you not wait to read the honeyed words that our contributors have written? Ready to comb through and find the sweet nectar that resides within? This issue we have queen bees, nurse bees, mason bees, Buddha bees, bees in fairy tales, bees in fall, bees in winter, beekeepers, and honey by the gallonful. It has always been our pleasure to read all of the different submissions we receive. This issue was no different. However, we received so many great submissions we have put together our biggest issue yet. We feel like queen bees of the hive, with drones bringing offering after offering to feed our fat rumps so that we may continue to lay little bee eggs in the way of these journals. So thank you, dear contributors. And thank you readers for picking up this issue, as heavy as it may be. And thank you bees! Bees do so many great things, it's no wonder that they're so busy all of the time. Without bees humankind would likely have starved. Go out there and plant some flowers so bees can keep being themselves and doing what they do. But first, help yourself to these poems and short stories. And after that, consider submitting for our 18th issue: Old Favorites, in which we are seeking pieces for any of our past 17 themes (including this one, if you feel so inspired after reading these pieces). We will bee with you always, Deep Overstock Editors

Beekeeping

Deep Overstock Issue 17

What light through yonder journal breaks? It's the 15th issue of Deep Overstock: Shakespeare! We could bardly contain ourselves while reading all of your submissions. This issue we have pieces that are Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories, and Problem Plays, just like the great playwright himself. We've got Ophelias, Caesars, Juliets, Antonys, Hamlets, hags, and witches. What a super cast of characters. Speaking of super characters, submissions for Issue 16: Superheroes are open from now until February 28th. Up, up, and away, dear readers!

Shakespeare

Deep Overstock Issue 15

Ariel Kusby

Boo! It's a spooky Deep Overstock collection of horror-filled stories and poetry from booksellers around the globe.

Horror

Deep Overstock Issue 7

Magic is the impossible. Whether it's a coin appearing from behind the ear, a rabbit disappearing into a hat, or a double rainbow across the sky, magic is what we wish could happen. It's a suspension of disbelief to just enjoy the moment for what it is. It's hope. And we could all use some hope and magic in our lives now. This issue, the pieces are divided into the three parts of a magic trick as named by Christopher Priest in The Prestige: The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige. Contributors have taken on illusions, magicians, heroes and villeins, life and death, but the constant remains that these pieces promise and deliver on impossibilities that can only be described as magic.

Magic

Deep Overstock Issue 14

Look up in the sky! There, above the shelves and moving through the clouds. Is it a bird? A plane? Or some sort of bird-plane hybrid? No, it's the 16th issue of Deep Overstock: Superheroes! Thank you for donning your capes, your masks, your tights, and saving us in this tumultuous time with your stories and poems on caped crusaders, vigilantism, and superpowers. This issue is full of BAM! super men, WHAM! wonderous women, ZAP! a couple of babies, and it all adds up to a team-up of epic proportions. No villains could stop what you've created in these pages.

Superheroes

Deep Overstock Issue 16

So it's come to this: a Deep Overstock clip show. But this issue is more than just a rerun of all seventeen of our past themes. Contributors have not just resubmitted, but reinvented and reimagined these themes in new ways. This issue really is a collection of new favorites on old themes, but that doesn't really work as a title/theme. Pieces come from Space Exploration; Fairy Tales, Fables & Folktales; Paranormal Romance; Nautical Lore; Dreams; Westerns; Horror; Structures; New Arrivals; Origin of Life; Animals; Mysteries; Future; Magic; Shakespeare; Superheroes; and Beekeeping.

Old Favorites

Deep Overstock Issue 18

Deep Overstock is the national booksellers literary journal. This is the first issue, themed 'SPACE EXPLORATION.'

Robert Eversmann

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