For it would seem—her case proved it—that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person.

The Ozarks Pridefest edition of FRUIT was my first publication as CS Johnston with (Self) Love Letters, a piece of prose to my former self, honoring who I once was and who I am becoming.

Another local publication, the Samhain edition of The Ozarks Agrarian News saw Ozarks Hymn illustrating the changing of the seasons in the mountains that raised me.