Jersey Devil Press

Jersey Devil Press, Issue Six is now available for your reading enjoyment!

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.

Word up, peoples. Here we are with the sixth sensational issue of Jersey Devil Press. I’m in the middle of both moving AND getting laid off, so, for the sake of not overtaxing my brain, I’ve decided to skip making ridiculous connections between our stories and just dive right into the awesomeness that is this issue.

I know. It’s rough for me too. But I think you’ll survive.

Starting us off is yt sumner’s beautifully bleak “Big Girl,” followed by Jim Walke’s epic tale of brothers and pants, “Hand Me Down.” Next is Morowa Yejidé’s stirring “To Do List” and the snooping sisters of Chris Yodice’s “Normal After All.” We close the issue with what might be my favorite title of all time: “Out of Steam Punk and Zombies Comes Bruce Lee,” by Jenny Ortiz. It is absolutely as wonderful as it sounds.

So there you go. Read them, enjoy them, tell the authors that you love them. We’ll be back in thirty with issue seven, and I promise to make the most strained, ridiculous associations you’ve ever seen.

.pdf is here, links to the individual stories are below.

– Eirik Gumeny

Big Girl, yt sumner
“I’m getting bigger.”

Hand Me Down, Jim Walke
“It was a golem of a garment. The blue reflected shockingly against human skin,
the sort of color that governments might paint nuclear waste containers
in a misguided effort to reduce panic.”

To Do List, Morowa Yejidé
“I don’t want to see all of that.”

Normal After All, Chris Yodice
“The girls always thought that there was a head in the box,
but they couldn’t imagine whose.”

Out of Steam Punk and Zombies Comes Bruce Lee, Jenny Ortiz

“East likes Bruce Lee the best; she knows everyone says it,
but Bruce Lee was a badass motherfucker.”

Ken Brosky from Express Milwaukee gave us a nice little write-up last week. You can find it here.

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.