sugared water
“Take a glass and crush your mint within it with a spoon. Crush it around the borders of the glass and leave no place untouched. Then throw the mint away—it is a sacrifice. Fill with cracked ice the glass and pour in the quantity of bourbon which you want. It trickles slowly through the ice. Let it have time to cool, then pour your sugared water over it.”
Chris McMillan’s recitation of Joshua Soule Smith’s The Mint Julep. (Text reportedly appeared in the Lexington Herald in the 1880s, but you can watch McMillan here.)
If we could candy words, we’d eat them to bellyaches every afternoon. We carry journals and collect chapbooks like Smaug ripping through a gold-sequin disco. If we’re lucky enough to leave something behind that enriches the dialogue of writerly types around the world, so much the better.
Send us your stuff—we’ll only hoard it for a little while. Issues 1-7 of SW are handbound, limited edition print mags, and we're moving online for issue 8!
ISSUES
no. 001 - no. 005 archived online & in print.
no. 006 & no. 007 are available in print.
no. 008 on are online issues.
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NICCI MECHLER, EIC
Nicci splits her time between exploring, spinning tales (sometimes yarn), bookbinding, & printmaking. Her work appears in mags such as Lines+Stars, Booth, Room, Still: The Journal, & Arroyo Literary Review. Her chapbooks include Deep in Flesh, & collaborative chapbooks in these cups & how wild & soft you are. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with a pack of rescue animals, & serves on the board of arts non-profit Tiger Lily Press. She the designer & in-house cover artist at Porkbelly Press. You can find her on IG: @wickedlittleheart & at thicketheart.com.