We started The Sacred Cow in 2012 in the belief that if anyone would be likely to publish our creative works, it would be us. That shrewd calculation turned out to be accurate, although some of the pieces required extensive editing. We were also joined by other talented writers over time, and The Sacred Cow has grown from a tiny online literary magazine in its early days, to a somewhat less tiny online literary magazine today. This volume contains the collected short stories, essays, and poems from the first four issues, November 2012 to November 2013.