Each month Another New Calligraphy celebrates simplicity through the microzine Shepherd’s Check, an exercise in how the small and the quiet can pierce the grand white noise of everyday life to create a gleaming voice of honesty and strength. ANC loves thoughtful, well-planned communication in which nothing is lost and nothing is unnecessary, whether that communication be a short, short story about a volcano, an unadorned expression of love, or frantic directions to the nearest emergency room. Being no more than 99 characters, the pieces featured in any issue of Shepherd’s Check are diverse and may have nothing in common other than their deceptive might.