Issue One, October 2009
Welcome, one and all, to the inaugural issue of Jersey Devil Press. We’ve got some magnificent fiction for you, starting—pretty perfectly, I might add—with Jersey’s own Kate Delany and the inimitable Corey Mesler. That’s followed up by a story from Stephen Schwegler, a little taste of the collection he’s releasing through us later this year. We’ve also got a surreal little number from Noel Sloboda, an insight into the wild world of hotel management by Christopher Woods, and an exercise in accidental existentialism by Robert Levin. We close the issue with the brilliant Mike Sweeney and a fairy tale I’m kind of jealous I didn’t write.
We here at Jersey Devil Press are more than happy with the way this issue turned out. We feel like it’s a pretty solid sampling of what we want to be about. We’ve got some Jersey attitude, some pieces to think about, and we’ve got werebears. You really can’t ask for more than that.
You can find a .pdf of the entire issue here and links to each of the individual stories below.
One Hundred Seconds of Solitude, by Corey Mesler
Decisions, by Stephen Schwegler
Manual Criticism, by Noel Sloboda
Letters to Wolfhaus, by Christopher Woods
The Werebear Who Wished to Come in from the Rain, by Mike Sweeney
The Legend of the Jersey Devil
– Eirik Gumeny, Editor
