Letter from the Editor

I made a risky purchase recently. The whole thing could have affected my marriage and therefore my relationship with my two sons. You have a fantasy that the transaction will realise all the pleasure and delight in your imagination, though the sense of gratification is often followed by shame and anxiety at the financial and spiritual consequences that come with such an impulsive decision.

I read the text saying simply, “I’m on my way”. My palms were dank. At the designated’s Orsino on seeing Olivia, “my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, have e’er since pursued me” since gazing upon my temptation for the first time. The door opened and there, in front of me, was my fantasy made manifest: a pair of bespoke shoes, neatly packaged in a leather-bound box, which was passed to me by the courier.