EDITOR’S NOTE

David Kelly Lawrence’s story came to us on our online submissions system, and neither I nor my associate editor had ever heard his name before. We both read the story and loved it immediately; I believe my associate editor said, “This is my favorite thing we’ve accepted since I’ve been working here.” After I sent back the acceptance note and got David’s reply, we were both amazed to learn that it was not only his first accepted story, but also the first piece of short fiction he had ever sent out. It is always fun to encounter surprises like this. If I had been asked to judge from the level of literary skill alone, I would have said this was an accomplished writer with a number of publications to his credit. Yet the story also has a freshness and originality that can perhaps be attributed in part to his newness to the field of literary endeavor. In any case, it was quite unlike anything I had read before, either in that week’s batch or in the whole year of submissions.

Wendy Lesser, Editor and Publisher

The Threepenny Review