Tick-tock, Doc.

Guys. GUYS. Our sixtieth issue. If you were to read one issue per second, starting now, it would be a full minute before you finished reading all of them.

I’ll pause to let that sink in.

Issue 60 has little things: a splinter, subatomic particles, spaces between teeth. It also has biggish things: a fish that’s not a fish, a stuffy guy in fancy dress, the consequences of time-travel, a pachyderm.

All these things, and more. Absorb it online or cop the PDF.

May your Halloween be haunted and rock-free.

It’s time to put on your best Scotchtoberfest kilt and tune up those bagpipes; Issue 59 is here!

Gio Clairval kicks things off with a tale of a dental assistant who sends some of her patients home with a little something extra. Then Don Katnik cools things down with a wintry supernatural tale. Mark J. Mitchell reflects on the grim state of the job market in a melancholy yet whimsical sonnet, and Gary Moshimer sets spines a-tingling with a story of a babysitter with questionable taste in dairy products and a baby who is anything but helpless. Next up is Yvonne Yu, who takes a surprisingly candid look at sexy mermaid fantasies. Finally, Gregory J. Wolos ends on an upbeat note with a story about a crematorium explosion survivor and his furry neighbor. And over everything the lovely, spooky cover art from Yuri Shwedoff sets an autumnal mood.

Read it by a crackling bonfire, if you can. And don’t forget the s’mores. Check it out online or read the PDF.

Resistance is futile.

Ah, October. The month where every beverage and dessert tastes like jack o’ lantern farts.

We’ll be foisting our fifty-ninth issue onto your eyeballs and into your brains (mmm . . . braaaiiiiins) shortly, but in the meantime, if you haven’t had a chance to check out the radical flash and dope poems in our September issue, you totally should.

And if you’re more in the mood for a novel, we highly recommend the spooky, swampy Hagridden, by our own Samuel Snoek-Brown.