This is the archived version of the August - September 2005 issue. The current issue is here.
Welcome to the tenth, and incredibly late issue of rumble, the micro-fiction e-zine that was determined not to die, almost did, but then didn't!
As many of you know, we've been forced to relocate because of hosting issues. Now those problems have been resolved, at least for the forseeable future, and you can bookmark this address as rumble's new home.
This month's issue features stories by some familiar names and a few that are new to rumble. We've also included a bonus sixth story with this issue, something we've never done before. We were unable to decide between the two works and went with them both. Hope you approve! Most of the photographs (as usual) come from the excellent free photography site Stock X-change.
So what's in the future for rumble? Right now that is very much in the air. We hope to continue to publish right on through 2006. We're small enough so that the time spent on the project does not seriously cripple or take away from our other endeavors, which was pretty much how we planned it from the start. After that who knows? The web is very transitory to say the least, but we definitely want rumble to continue as long as possible, even after we all have those little computers put into our heads by our benevolant government sometime early in the next decade.
To keep us safe. So they know where we are, every second.
Some interesting news for those who feel their writing falls outside the familiar forms: the Mondo Bizarro Forum is a gathering place for writers of Bizzaro fiction, an emerging genre which includes many forms of weird horror, absurdist, surreal, and outside-the-mainstream fiction. Why not stroll over today and check it out?
—Craig, Jeffrey, Justynn, and Perry