It all began with a kiss.

"There had been days and nights when the memory of their kiss had burned and burned on his lips..."

Welcome, everyone, to the Phantom Lips blog.

As we begin publishing hopefully within the next month, this blog will be used as an online supplement to our written publication. As co-editor of Phantom Lips I wanted to let you know a little more about our vision for Phantom Lips, and our hopes.

The idea of Phantom Lips is to provide a written resource for self and communal exploration. Our desire for ourselves, our contributors and our readers is to discover something that we have never seen before, something that will weigh like an anchor in our hearts, and unveil a new horizon of possibilities for us. We want you to find your phantom limb, to suddenly feel the fingers of an extremity you never knew you had before or had even missed.

We chose the term “Phantom Lips” because the things that we discover about ourselves and about others has a phantom-like effect but has the depth of a romance as well. This is an opportunity to try new things and to test your abilities.
Phantom Lips will not be your ordinary Literary Journal or ‘Zine. We desire to produce the quality of a journal, but our main goal is to encourage others to work on new things whether it be alone or with others. Often times we learn more about ourselves, when we have the opportunity to collaborate. We hope that you find your Phantom Lips throughout this whole process.

If you are interested in contributing, or helping in any way feel free to contact both editors: Kyle and Katy.
Submissions, questions, and anything else can be sent to either phantomlipszine@gmail.com or editorial@phantomlips.com
We are accepting all kinds of submissions, whether it be: poetry, essays, reviews, fiction, complaints, photography, art, and anything else you can wrap your mind around. There are no restrictions so send in anything. But also try something new to send in, we desire for you to try something new, even if it doesn’t work out.

Thanks!
Katy