Words, in their purest, form cut and repair. sometimes simultaneously.

scissors and spackle is a bi-monthly publication. Our goal is to provide a home for works that might not fit in other publications. We don't care about where someones work has been featured or what university they attended, we care about quality.   

It is time to unplug the television, log off Facebook and remember the power of the written world. There is revolution in the air. Will you be there?

One in four Americans did not read a single book last year.*

When the State of Arizona projects how many prison beds it will need, it factors in the number of kids who read well in fourth grade. **

The average American watches more than 4 hours of TV every day. 28 hours per week. 2 months of unadulterated TV-watching per year. If that average person dies at 65 they may as well have pulled the plug at 57, nine years of their life was spent watching television.***

"As human gains were reduced to capital gains, wealth became a slow-acting poison. We were not all screwed in the same way, and not all were equally screwed up, but as is now clear, we were all screwed eventually." Richard DeGrandpre

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/56/mark-beast.html

Stone Highway Review editor and powerhouse poet Mary Stone Dockery recently reviewed our first chap relese, Forgetting Aesop by Ariana Den Bleyker. We couldn't have said it better our selves. Read it here http://www.stonehighway.com/blog.html and then buy it here: