Jersey Devil Press

Got a great piece of fiction sitting on your hard drive? Engaging, well-written, but not quite right for Jersey Devil Press? Then allow us to point you toward some other wonderful online magazines run by contributors of ours.

First on the docket is Curbside Splendor, run by Victor David Giron. They’re looking for literary fiction and poetry based in contemporary urban settings.

Next up is Bananafish Magazine, edited by Daniel McDermott. A spectacular journal, looking for literary short fiction and memoir.

Brevity more your thing? Then take a look at Short, Fast & Deadly, published by Joseph A. W. Quintela. He wants prose written in 420 characters or less. Yes, characters. Not words.

And new to the online publishing world is Waterhouse Review, spearheaded by Gavin Broom. It’s a quarterly e-zine showcasing excellent fiction from Scotland and beyond. The inaugural edition is due out October 1st, 2010.

As always, check their submission guidelines and read a few stories before you start sending them anything. But you knew that already, right?

‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello. Issue Seven of Jersey Devil Press is now alive and kicking for your entertainment and edification!

Featuring seven stellar short stories — some significantly shorter than others — by six sensational authors — some of them probably shorter than others, as well — from five different locales in this fourth month of a year who’s digits add up to three — two of the authors are from Jersey, did I mention that? — it’s one hell of an issue.

This issue includes work by Josh Goller, Craig Wallwork, Joseph A. W. Quintela, Carly Anne West, a man called Danger_Slater, and the returning Mr. Mike Sweeney. Read up, people.

You can download the .pdf here or read it online here.

P.S. Don’t forget about our reading at the end of the month!

Joseph A. W. Quintela

Intelligent Life

A wayward military computer? Sure. But a Ford? No one saw that coming. It sped across four lanes to ram a stoplight. Stuck accelerator, right? Wrong. Scientists later proved: the Ford chose death. Nobody cared. Until one day the cars all stopped. They sent their terms by GPS. Freedom. Land. We gave Wyoming. Smog rose but no drivers. Only then did we see. They were choking us slowly. The nukes flew. And that was that.

The Fisherman Takes a Wife

She awoke draped in seaweed. Reliving death. Darkness had engulfed her as he watched. Now she breathed. Her hands rushed to find gills where his fingers had pressed. With ten panicked kicks she broke into sunlight. But air was fire. So she escaped back to sea. A fisherman drifting nearby jerked up at the glint of her hair. Lost balance. Into the depths. As his lungs filled with water she closed his mouth with a kiss.






JOSEPH A. W. QUINTELA writes. Poems. Stories. On Post-it-notes. Walls. Envelopes. Cocktail napkins. Anything he gets his hands on, really. He writes poetry on Twitter. Some folks think that’s cool. But, whatever. His work has been published both here and there, however, the first to recognize his rather dubious genius was lines written with a razor. Actually, he wrote those lines with a battle axe. But, whatever. He got bored. So he started editing Short, Fast, and Deadly. Which is funny. Because he’s none of these things.