Although Melt the Snow appears light and fluffy and not all that substantial, it does accumulate a substance. So I’m gonna say that this zine weighs in as something more than drift but less than avalanche. Chatty and personal, there are also a lot of randomly acute observations. It’s the little things that do this zine right: the sheet of wax paper that gives the cover an opaque, frosty feel (use your imagination), and the mini-zine insert. The insert turns out to be a little booklet of interviews with other zine-makers; similar to everything else in this zine, the profiles are solid, unpretentious, and evocative of a curious mind in development. Unlike nature, Teri gives her zine an almost gentle restraint. Enough snow falls for us to enjoy it, but not enough to get us stuck in the driveway spinning our tires. (HN)
zine, #4 / main creator: Teri / $1.50 / 17 Mounbatten Rd., Weston, ON, M9P 1Z1