COMPOST + CARNIVAL

and celebrating Sandcastles and Wine

Author

aliza razell
August 04, 2025

Hello Mystics,

Cheers to all who made Issue #6 a boozy beachy beaut. Sandcastles + Wine was chock-full of poetry, personal essays, wine-dark questions, beach reads, real sand art, musicmaking, mind-bending puzzles, and other treasures.

About 300 covers in, I think I’m finally getting a hang of this lino-printing thing…

Paid subscribers will receive a copy in the mail soon. Otherwise, if you see us in the coming weeks we’ll probably have one on us. And if you picked up a copy at the launch party, thank you for coming to celebrate with us!

Launch Party in the Aeronaut courtyard, ft. a baffling blue zipper;
followed by a pool-party at Retrospect, ft. a sandcastle in their window display!

Speaking of parties, our next theme is…

COMPOST AND CARNIVAL!

Where my mind goes: vegetation and vertigo, deep-fried decomposition, feral fecund festivities. Cotton candy that melts like overripe fruit and merry-go-round-the-cycle-of-life...

We always welcome your creations from the archives, and especially with this theme you are invited to revisit your creative compost heap and see what new growth might come out of previously discarded projects.

Submissions are due by September’s new moon (Sunday, 9/21). Send em to bit.ly/IAmMystic or go to our website: MysticMoneymaker.com

See you around,

Aliza and John and Corry

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