On August 7, we had a mad power struggle for whose name would be listed first on the masthead. Randolph’s? It was his idea to start a magazine in the first place. Carissa’s? It was her idea for the magazine to be a literary journal.
After three rousing matches of fisticuffs with no clear victor, we changed the editor listings from “Randolph Pfaff (Editor), Carissa Halston (Editor)” to “Carissa-Halston-Randolph-Pfaff (Editor-Monster).”
Since then, we’ve gotten cover letters addressed to Carissa. We’ve gotten cover letters addressed to Randolph. We’ve gotten a few cover letters that were addressed to Carissa-Halston-Randolph-Pfaff, which Carissa chalked up to people thinking that there was an individual on staff whose name is Carissa-Halston-Randolph-Pfaff, as Randolph could be a surname or a forename.
But in regards to the Editor-Monster title, no one has said a word.
We think we’ll leave it that way for a while.
Reminder: Submissions for Volume Two, Issue Two are open for twelve more days. Will you address the Monster?
I still prefer “Halspfaff.”
We usually go with Pfalston. It was that or Halfaff, which (to my ear) sounds Shakespearean. Either way, maybe we should switch it up sometimes.
I’m totally into the Monster. Sorry — Editor-Monster.