She wants postcards. Lots of them. With words on the back. Because she wants to turn those words and postcards into flash fiction. Lots of it.

All the details can be found on her site.

She’s not stopping until she gets a hundred of them, so let’s help her out. Together we can prove once and for all that the internet isn’t just for porn.

Please, please, please, for the love of God, don’t send her porn.

Case in point, this article from nj.com: Acrobatic thieves hit N.J. Best Buy.

The robbers pulled a Mission Impossible and went in from the ceiling, making off with twenty laptops.

While I — and JDP — certainly do not condone overly elaborate electronics heists, you’ve gotta admit that it’s kind of fucking awesome.

Or read “Jesus Was Broke” first and then do it!

Either way, do it!

Time’s a-runnin’ out!

You can find the .pdf here and the online version here.

Including short fiction from yt sumner, Jim Walke, Morowa Yejidé, Chris Yodice, and Jenny Ortiz, this issue is quite simply the single greatest thing ever, for all time.

You know the drill. Get their words into your, and everyone’s, brain. Do it. I don’t care how. Download it, surf it, link it, blog it, tweet it, read it aloud and add it subliminally to your CDs, print it out and leave it on the subway, staple it to telephone poles. Just make sure the entire world reads it. Or else we’re all doomed.

Perhaps., by Stephen Schwegler, is available for pre-order.

Order it now! Time is running out! Pre-orders are only open until the end of February! Then you’re going to have to wait two weeks and regular order it! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO YOURSELF?!

Perhaps. is available as a classic paperback and in the extra fancy “author signed” edition.

All pre-orders will be personally packaged with love and good intentions and will ship on March 15th.

You can find an excerpt from the collection, the short story “Jesus Was Broke,” here. Read it, love it, buy it. In whatever order you want.

I personally enjoy the fact that he has no idea how he found us. Fate? Magic? Boredom and the internet? Who cares! Thanks for the kind words, Ken.

And it looks like “Golden Streams of Babylon,” by Andrew Frankel, was pegged as today’s genre story on Fiction Daily. Sweet.

I’m sure someday we’ll stop being so excited and proud about being appreciated. Not, you know, soon, but someday.

Read it all here.

Well, one of the earlier issues, for starters. Or our friends at Bananafish. Or Short, Fast, and Deadly.

“But I’ve read all those already!” you’re saying. “Give me something else!”

Fine, you whiny… Ahem. What I mean is, check out FictionDaily, an internet fiction aggregate. They scour the web so you don’t have to, updating daily with a trio of the best of what’s out there. The fun part is they don’t list the author, the title, or the venue, just an excerpt linking to the story. It’s pretty cool.

There. Happy now? Don’t say I never gave you anything.

For our part, Jersey Devil Press nominated “The Werebear Who Wished to Come in from the Rain,” by Mike Sweeney, and “You and Me and the End of the World,” by M.R. Lang. Good luck, guys.

Reader nominations are open until February 28, 2010. You can find out more here and then nominate a story you think deserves some much needed accolades.