Just a quick update on our Kickstarter, you know, the one in support of Eirik Gumeny’s Exponential Apocalypse: Dead Presidents and Ryan Werner’s soon-to-have-an-official-title super-book. We’re at the mid-point chronologically and are about two-thirds funded. But that’s no reason to let up on obnoxiously flogging our need for cash to help publish and promote these amazing books (and maybe one other if we run way above our fundraising goal). Help us out if you can. The sooner we hit our goal, the sooner we’ll shut up about it. Win-win, folks, win-win.

So, remember on Friday when we said we’d have a new issue on Wednesday? Well, it turns out it’s not quite June yet, so that would be the next next Wednesday. Sorry about that. We’re taking a course over the summer called “Introduction to Basic Calendar Reading” to help us avoid similar mistakes in the future. Gregorian? Julian? Who can keep that shit straight? But we will have a new issue up on June 6th, aka The Longest Day, aka next Wednesday.

Now probably wouldn’t be a good time to ask you to support our Kickstarter, right?

Probably not, but it is a good time to do something we’ve been meaning to do for a while. We already mentioned that Michael Sions story, “Jolly Roger,” was named a Million Writers Notable Story, and while we’re quite happy for Michael, just because storySouth doesn’t say you’re notable, doesn’t mean you’re not super-cool. So here (in no particular order and mostly off the top of our heads) are some of our favorite stories that we published last year. Check ’em out while you wait for the new issue to be released…on next Wednesday.

Chimp by Ann Capozzoli
Brown and Green: A Love Story by Hobie Anthony
Armageddon’s Jester by Andrew S. Williams
Eli and the Empty Lot by Alex Koplow
Julia and Raul by Ben Nordolilli
Mammy’d Give Me Minds to Eat by Graham Tugwell
Exposure by Claire Joanne Huxham
Conversation with My Vestigial Tail by Russell Bradbury-Carlin
Red Hot Panda Love by Danger_Slater
and, of course, Where Did My Balls Go, or The Story of Oliver: A Canine Memoir by Shannon Derby, which cannot be finished dry-eyed.