From the Editor's Desk
by Tim Ambrose
by Tim Ambrose
Dear Readers,
I am honored to be here today to start off the 6th issue of Digital Dragon Magazine. For half a year now DDM has been striving to bring you the best short, family friendly, speculative fiction on the market today. And as we approach the New Year we have even more great things on the horizon. I can’t give them away now, but you won’t be disappointed.
Another thing I’m sure you won’t be disappointed with is this issue of Digital Dragon Magazine. Over our first five issues, we have brought well established authors and editors as our featured writers. In November, we opened it up to the best stories on Thanksgiving and we have a couple you can’t miss. On top of that, we have what I will call the best chapter of the Wind Rider yet. We will also be bringing you the best in short fiction from many new writers and writers that are new to DDM.
On top of that, today marks the start of an exciting month with the start of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. If you are taking the challenge to write a 50,000 word novel this month, we here at DDM want to wish you the best of writing and we hope you’ll do the same for us as Randy Streu, Jen Ambrose, and Julie Mauer, and myself, all take up the challenge.
In closing I’d been thinking of the right things to say concerning the Thanksgiving in which we are about to partake. But the right words did not come to me, so instead I would rather share with you the words of President Abraham Lincoln who laid down the holiday of Thanksgiving, not as a day to stuff our faces and watch football, but as a day to give thanks to our creator for the many gifts he has bestowed upon us.
"The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
"In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
"Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the field of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than before. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
"It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in this civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
"In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the
I am honored to be here today to start off the 6th issue of Digital Dragon Magazine. For half a year now DDM has been striving to bring you the best short, family friendly, speculative fiction on the market today. And as we approach the New Year we have even more great things on the horizon. I can’t give them away now, but you won’t be disappointed.
Another thing I’m sure you won’t be disappointed with is this issue of Digital Dragon Magazine. Over our first five issues, we have brought well established authors and editors as our featured writers. In November, we opened it up to the best stories on Thanksgiving and we have a couple you can’t miss. On top of that, we have what I will call the best chapter of the Wind Rider yet. We will also be bringing you the best in short fiction from many new writers and writers that are new to DDM.
On top of that, today marks the start of an exciting month with the start of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. If you are taking the challenge to write a 50,000 word novel this month, we here at DDM want to wish you the best of writing and we hope you’ll do the same for us as Randy Streu, Jen Ambrose, and Julie Mauer, and myself, all take up the challenge.
In closing I’d been thinking of the right things to say concerning the Thanksgiving in which we are about to partake. But the right words did not come to me, so instead I would rather share with you the words of President Abraham Lincoln who laid down the holiday of Thanksgiving, not as a day to stuff our faces and watch football, but as a day to give thanks to our creator for the many gifts he has bestowed upon us.
"The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
"In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
"Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the field of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than before. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
"It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in this civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
"In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States
to be affixed.
[Signed]
"A. Lincoln"
"A. Lincoln"
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