Don’t Shut Out the Light

Issue 43 is the runaway American dream. Less chrome-wheeled and fuel-injected, more disillusioned and dejected. We bookend our June installment with stories about addiction – one with killer drones, the other involves someone getting shot by a turkey. In between there’s war, PTSD, recession, and a bread van. That’s right, we said a bread van. Also, our first ever poem.

It’s a bit of a walk on the dark side, but we think you can handle it. The weather’s getting warmer and the writing’s always good. You’ll be okay if you don’t stray too far off the path.

In fact, Issue 43 needs you. Redeem the cynicism, heal the violated.

Hiho silver-o, deliver it from nowhere.

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Kickstarter of a Lifetime

Our friend needs your help.

Let’s get this out of the way: we make shit up. Like most writers, it’s sort of our raison d’etre and all. You have no idea how much we wish we were making this up.

But we’re not.

Our friend and JDP’s founder, Eirik Gumeny, needs an organ transplant. Lungs, to be specific.

As some of you may know Eirik’s lived with cystic fibrosis his whole life. He’s now in his thirties which isn’t always the best time for folks with CF. Hence, the plan to get new lungs. You can read the specifics over at the page set up for Eirik by COTA.

The good news is we’re not asking you for your actual organs.

But transplants are immensely expensive, like in the neighborhood of a half million dollars on average. Insurance will cover some of that, but there are at least $65,000 in uncovered costs that are anticipated and that’s what we’re trying to get people to help with.

Simply put, Eirik is a husband, a son, a brother, a friend, and a writer. He deserves to keep being all of those things.

So if you can help at all, please do so. Not to go all Wikipedia on you guys, but if everyone who visited this site gave five bucks, well, we’d certainly be on our way to making a dent in the $65K.

On top of everything else, Eirik is the dude who thought up the idea for this place where a lot of wayward stories (and writers) have found a home that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Again, if that means anything to you, please help if you can.

Also, let’s spread the word. If you can get the message out on Twitter, Facebook, your blog, or whatever, that’s important too.

A lot of life is ambiguity. But every once in a while it throws you a chance to make a real difference in an actual person’s life, who needs and deserves to be helped. This is one of them. We’re counting on you.

– Mike Sweeney

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Technical Difficulties

We know you’re expecting a new issue, but we’re going to ask you to buck up and wait a few more days.

Real life, the end of the school year, and efforts by at least one of our editors to get named interim Senator from New Jersey have combined to set us back. So try to relax, reread last month’s awesome issue, and we should have the June Issue for you over the weekend.

It’s well worth the wait, with a fantastic novelette by Isaac Boone Davis and great short stories by Nate Depke, Ric Carter, Jon Wesick, and returning JDP favorite Robert Buswell. Not to mention our first ever poem (by Helena Ainsworth). The whole thing kicks off with the debut publication by new writer, Ricardo Angulo, who brings you an excellent tale of addiction and killer drones.

We can’t wait for you to read all of it.

(Well, okay, apparently we could wait — but only a few more days.)

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