We like words. We like grand words & ugly words & vulgar words, words that hold down three jobs & words you only find under rocks in graveyards under a full moon (& apparently we like clichéd images.) We like words that run red lights. We like conjugation in the name of aesthetic. We sometimes like stories where something happens & we also like stories that end where they begin. We like writing that takes us deeper into life, not away from it. We like artists who know the difference between the beautiful & the merely pretty. We like conscious awareness of grandiosity & we like writing who knows who it is, has been around & has got some stories to tell.

We like writers, poets, creators, gods, mad genius, evil genius, genius undeclared, shipyard poetry, debutante fiction & the children of their illicit trysts (the adjectives are all interchangeable.)

Write, & the world will read.

The & is:

Jason Cook — Editor of Fiction, Collector of Tattoos.

Bruce Bostick — Poetry Editor, Rejector of Free Verse

Meghan Kelly — Final Authority on Everything.  In no way related to Machine Gun Kelly.

Questions, comments, hate mail, and love letters:  ampersandeditor@gmail.com

Submissions : ampersandsubmit@gmail.com