Our premier issue features the short fiction and poetry of sixteen superb and distinctive writers.

Briefly, about our title: Facets alludes to the process of making art as compared to the formation of a jewel.

To create a jewel, the earth is mined for raw stones, which are then washed, cut, and polished until the previously hidden, inherent brilliance of the stone itself shines through. Likewise, in a story, poem, or memoir, we mine the earth of our experience, then clean, shape, and polish it.  This is what we can find in literature perhaps more than anywhere else: an ability to perceive ourselves, to plumb interior depths, and to appreciate myriad colorations in the facets of our human experience.

Facets remain committed and focused to provide excellent writing in any style that expresses a human truth and believes that our continued intentions are reflected in the diversity of stories and poems assembled here.