In this issue, we are deviating from our standard format of featuring one writer in order to present poems, stories, and essays by one hundred writers from all over the world (The United States and Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa), a collection of diverse responses and reactions to the events of September 11, 2001. In these pieces you will encounter expressions of grief, outrage, fear, hope, and cynicism. Some of the pieces present clear perspectives, while, in others, we witness an individual writer attempting to gain his or her bearings in what seems to be a chaotic world. We hope you will be moved by some or all of the pieces contained in this section. Now, perhaps more than ever, it is important for the individual to speak, and for what is spoken to be heard. We at The Pedestal Magazine thank you for listening ....
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