This issue marks 20 years of Halfway Down the Stairs! That’s 1,375 pieces published, drawn from 8,180 submissions, over 72 issues, with over 100,000 readers. The whole thing has been done on a shoestring, so how did we get started, and how have we continued so long? Our story starts several years before we published a single thing, in 2003, when several of us met in the depths of internet forums. We all liked writing and we wanted to do more of it, so we started a writing group which we cal...
