letter
from
the
editor
Welcome to the nonsense!
From the start, this magazine should have been a dream
better left to pipes, but somehow here we are.
It took a lot of years for me to get here, but it took a lot of
good people to actually make it, starting just a few months
ago.
I started with a blog. Project: Poppycock was the idea that
maybe I could create a space where people can write what
they wanted and do the stories or articles that inspired
them. I wanted to give people the space that I never got as
an intern so many years ago. I wanted to create something
where I was a facilitator, the anti-editor.
Eighteen months later and a group of six strangers
somehow built a magazine out of nothing but desire and
passion.
There are a few things that you’re going to notice in
Poppycock:
we’re not perfect. I am sorry in advance, but I am hoping
anything you might find is at least minor enough that it
won’t take away from enjoying what you’re reading.
There will be no ads.
Though this issue is free, future issues will be paid
subscriptions. This is so I can pay my future contributors
and deliver, hopefully, an even better product without
ever trying to sell you something.
If you’re paying to read the magazine, I’m not looking to
squeeze every greedy penny out of the space on my pages.
I want you to subscribe to 100% content. I want to deliver
the magazine I want to read.
We are six people who love what we do and got together
to make a magazine. There’s nothing any more complicated
or grandiose about this than that. I wanted to tell peoples’
stories, and by dumb luck some other people wanted to do
that, too. I hope you like it.
I’d like to take a moment to thank the collective below.
None of this would have been possible without you and I
am eternally in your debt. That same sentiment goes out
to my family, my friends (some of whom thought I was/
am crazy for doing this), and to everyone who spurred me
forward when the panic attacks and the creative ulcers
got to be too much. Thank you all.
Wesley Bauman
Editor in Chief
Poppycock Magazine
[email protected]
There will be typos.
I’m sorry about that, but we are a small group of amateurs.
Things were missed, little issues here and there exist, and
W r i t e r s
W i l l • V a u g h n
K a t i e • W h i t t e n
G r a c e • C a t o n
H u n t e r • S k o w r o n
W e s l e y • B a u m a n
A s h l e e • Y o k o m
“No shame in your experience.”
-Jack Kerouac
“Perfect grammar or misspelt words,
your paper will still burn.”
-Cubbiebear