We're thrilled to sponsor Liberty Hall's end-of-year "flash challenge". (More on Liberty Hall in a moment.) One lucky winner will bypass everyone else in our slush pile, and have an opportunity to be published in our January issue.

We'll also have a new story from Eric Garcia, creator of the Anonymous Rex series, Matchstick Men, and the delightfully warped Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys.

Finally, we'll have more classic flash, more incredible illustrations from our artist-in-residence, Rich Ware—and more. We promise to make it worth your while.

Back to Liberty Hall. It's a writers' group that focuses on challenges—flash challenges, short story challenges, polish challenges—with the idea that if you have lots of motivation to write, you'll write more. It's also the place "where you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard." Not sure what that means? Me either, but next month's interview with Mike Munsil, founder and proprieter, may (just may) shed some light on the topic.

Join us!