This is an archived issue. The current issue is here.
Hungry for good short fiction? Here are some words for you to eat. If you like the taste, let us know. They will not sustain your body or help you conquer your enemies. Being strange food, their only purpose is to feed your head. You must hurtle through this terrible and holy thing we call life at supersonic speeds. Your passage will bring pain. Rest here awhile where it's safe. These words will never hurt you.
Listen to this issue's theme song while reading. And here's the Ladytron page at Epitonic.
You may notice that all the stories in this issue seem to be about relationships of one sort or another. It just turned out that way, honest it did. We don't do themes here, at least not on purpose. But I think it's a good issue all the same with some excellent writing. And after all, few subjects are more compelling. Would you like to review the site? Send us an e-mail and your comments may be published in a future issue.
Some of our authors this month come to us by way of drexel university by way of Miriam, who helped spread the word about our e-zine there, and from zoetrope.com, where a very active flash fiction community plots and writes and whispers in the shadows. You should probably check it out if you haven't already.
What's new? We've added some new links to our links page, and a second art piece to this issue. That's about it as far as site changes go. We're working to provide a .PDF version of the July issue. Check the links page in a week or so and it should be there.
What we are redux:
A micro-fiction e-zine. We only publish works of between 50 and 500 words. We feature five stories and one poem and piece of art per issue. We welcome submissions from new and established web authors.
Small. We don't need to fill each issue with huge amounts of content. We want quality. We demand quality. We publish quality. Originality works for us too.
Diverse. We won't restrict ourselves to any genre, we won't refuse any work because of genre. We are omni-genre. We are the Strangers in a Strange Land, and we like it that way.
What we offer redux:
Exposure. Your work will be featured, not buried. Your work will be displayed with dignity, not butchered by a clumsy webmaster. If accepted, your work and biography will be archived permanently for you to link to.
Bonus: Rich, creamy layers of you. We'll hunt down links based on the information provided in your bio, providing direct linkage to your website, published stories, and other web pages featuring you!
Goodbye for now, writers and readers. Submit! and keep on submitting because we value each submission even if we can't publish them all. And send us your thoughts, let us know you were here.
—Craig, Eric, Jeffrey and Justynn