A new issue of Fiction Attic is now online, featuring nine short stories by eight intriguing writers. Real estate and record shops, masochism and murder, doppelgangers, majorettes, toys and tears and closets of love…it’s all here. The stories are illustrated with original art by Stephen Shearer, Andy Batt, and our featured artist, three-time NEA Fellow Ira Joel. View the issue here.

This is Issue 20 of the little magazine that started several years ago as my own exercise in writing HTML code. In that time I’ve had the opportunity to publish stories by Michelle Tea, Steve Almond, Stephen Elliott, Macarthur Fellow Gloria Frym, and many emerging writers, as well works in translation by the Albanian writer Jiri Kajane and the internationally acclaimed Italian writer Mario Rigoni Stern.

As I continue the enterprise that was only supposed to be an experiment, I encourage writers of literary fiction, as well as artists and photographers, to submit your work. Most of what I publish comes from the slush pile. I’m not the speediest reader, as I do the entire operation myself, but I do read every single submission.