Welcome all to the 16th edition of SCOPE, SIU School of Medicine’s literary journal. Each year we solicit entries for our publication, and each year we are blown away by not only the volume of responses but the ease with which the artists put so much of themselves into their work. We thank all who submitted for generously sharing their talents and also for their courage to offer such personal reflections on life’s most intimate matters.
We would like to thank all involved in this project including our many reviewers for their time and energy, the editors responsible for getting the publication together, Karen Carlson, Dr. Phil Davis, Jim Hawker, and Dr. Jacqueline Scolari for their direction and help, and finally, all those who put themselves “out there” by contributing a piece.
We hope you enjoy reading SCOPE as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Kate Richards, MSII
Rachel Ade, MSIII
Editors-in-Chief