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NOTES FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Welcome to issue #6!

I usually use this space as a way to bridge the gap between issues, to tell you, fellow reader, a tale or two from the road. Well, it was a short trip. Our fifth issue was late to the party and not a hell of a lot has gone on between then and now. Nothing worth wasting your time on, anyway.

So let’s jump right into things, shall we? As always, please skip on ahead if you can’t wait to sink your teeth into the meaty parts...

Our sixth issue—and it’s a great one. Four-time Stoker Award™-winner and Grandmaster of Horror Jack Ketchum gives us “Lighten Up,” a dose of dark humor that still manages to be righteously menacing. This one smokes! (Ba-doom tsssh.) Rising star Lee Thompson spins yet another devastating yarn of emotional psychedelia in “The River,” a Division Mythos tale.

Once again we did not shy away from publishing up-and-comers, and “For Jack,” a grim tale of murder, love and revenge, by P.K. Gardner, illustrates why. Hubert Dade raises the bar high with the unsettlingly heavy “No One But Us Monsters.” His story note is a tale unto itself. Lucia Starkey’s “Ballad of the Man with the Shark Tooth Bracelet” is as surreal and sharp as its title suggests.

John Guzman celebrates his very first sale with “Magnolia’s Prayer.” This disquieting tale won our flash fiction contest for May 2012, which required participants to write a story based on the concept of mail-hoarding. It was eventually chosen as the overall winner for 2012 by guest judge Adam Cesare, author of the cinematic splatter platters Tribesmen and Video Night.