A. Papatya Bucak discusses the notion of threes and her Brevity 30 essay Studies for a Drawing in Red:
Around 1994, one of my friends told me about a guy she knew who dressed all in red to tell his girlfriend he loved her. Then five years later, while I was on a writing residency at Hedgebrook Farm, one of the chefs told me about a kid–I think it was her nephew–who dressed all in red in order to lure hummingbirds. I knew these two stories fit together somehow, but they didn’t feel complete–things have to happen in threes, don’t they? So after a ten-year-wait for another story about someone dressed all in red, it occurred to me that the someone could be me.
We are about a week away from launching our 26th Issue, themed Hot and Cold. Stay tuned for brief essays from A. Papatya Bucak, Aaron Teel, Marcia Aldrich, Mary Sojourner, Ashley Seitz Kramer, Patricia Twomey Ryan, Jill Christman, and Anne Panning, as well as a new craft essay from Philip Gerard and Bill Milligan’s review of Robert Root’s new book. We are pleased.
