I pushed through last night and I read through about two months of slushpile backlog. So if you’ve sent in a submission before right now and you haven’t heard from me, then something’s wrong and you should give me a ping.
Maybe I should keep better tabs of these things, but it seems that of the 70 or so stories I read, about a third were of the "alien invasion/abduction/red-neck sodomy" variety. None of them made it past the first round of reading. And other than cartoons, nothing of that particular variety has made it into the zine since the first couple of issues.
I’m also coming to the conclusion that I don’t particularly like the whole "flash fiction ending in a zinger" variety either.
But I also don’t like flash fiction that doesn’t really go anywhere, so I don’t know where that leaves everyone.
