LA PETITE ZINE ISSUE #15, GIRLFRIEND

Here is what you do when you're getting a head cold (not when you're getting a chest cold, or a cruise ship virus, or a phantom limb, or if you're profusely bleeding from a head wound, or if you cannot remember who the president is, or anything other than a head cold): Soak a pair of cotton socks in a bowl of ice water. At the same time, soak your feet in a basin of hot water (not scalding, but hot as you can take if you want to intensify the process, take a hot bath). Once your entire body heats up (a little bit of sweat on your upper lip may act as your timer), remove your feet from the basin (or your body from the bath, in which case, towel off immediately and get into your
pajamas). Do the following in quick succession: remove the cotton socks from the ice water and put them on your feet; put on a dry pair of wool socks over the wet cotton socks; get immediately into bed,
under sufficient covers, and stay there for 8 hours. Ideally, you should complete this process at night, and go directly to sleep. You will wake completely cured. At very least, you will wake with a clearer
head. It works. Okay. So. Ice socks for a head cold, and La Petite Zine for everything else. We've got a cure for what ails you.

Editor D

One editorial task is to create a theme in the work that reflects the world, life, the moment of understanding and reflection between author and audience.

Fortunately for us, this is always impossibly out of our hands.

What makes this issue special to me is that it is as we hope each issue will be, polyvocal and full of great work by great writers.

Thanks to all our contributers for making this issue one of the best cures to the current state of the written world.

Editor J