Scissors and spackle began in 2011 with belief that words, in their purist form both cut and repair. Sometimes simultaneously. We are a flop house for homeless words. We are interested in fiction without boundaries… There is revolution in the air. Words and language are finally prepared to fight back against the forces that have tried to silence them. 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.***