Divided
We Stand
Welcome to the
second issue of On The
Premises! Things were
rocky there for a while...our premise confused a few
people, and we apologize for that. As we said in our
newsletter, we learned a lot about what makes a good
premise and what doesn’t, and we’ll apply what we learned
from now on.
(What do you mean you don’t subscribe to our monthly, very
short newsletter? Silly reader! Write to
SignMeUp@OnThePremises.com
and we’ll
correct your error in judgment.)
What else did we learn? Our prize judges have even more
diverse tastes than we thought. Opinions on the honorable
mentions were highly
divided. Lots
of fun and interesting arguments, which is good in my
opinion, because one of our goals is to produce issues that
contain a variety of stories, for a variety of tastes.
See, some fiction magazines seem to publish the same kinds
of stories over and over. We don’t want to. The first issue
had no science fiction pieces; this issue has, arguably,
three. But three very different kinds
of
science fiction! Plus a comedy and a straightforward
Arabian-style fantasy. If you can find a fiction magazine
that publishes five stories more different from each other
than these in the same issue, let us know. We may have set
a record. I believe every fan of short fiction will find
something they like in this issue.
Enough blather. On with the stories! And be sure to check
out the cartoons our illustrator, Francis Heaney, provided.
We think he came through for us again, but what do
you
think?
Keep writing and keep reading!
Tarl Roger Kudrick,
co-publisher of On The
Premises magazine