Champing at the bit to get your hands on Backwards City #2? Can't believe that 40% of the editorial staff has the gall to get married in the middle of literary journal publishing season, pushing our already-a-touch-late release date back a whole month? You may need therapy.

Or you may just need to take a look at Chris Bachelder's e-book, Lessons in Virtual Photography, at McSweeneys.net. Chris is the author of the excellent Bear v. Shark, blogged here and here. Chris is awesome. And we've got one of his stories.

Still not enough for you? Then check out "Chocolate Milk Nosebleed Boys" by Kurtis Davidson and think about preordering his new book, What the Shadow Told Me, which is coming out on May 31st. KD has a new story in BCR #2, too, and it too is excellent.

Also in BCR #2: The winners of our first annual literary contest (Enter now! The postmark deadline is April 15th. Friends, colleagues, and and former students of Fred Chappell are not eligible to enter.), some hot comics (which we've still got a little space for -- so send us your work), and great poetry. Much, much great poetry.

So if you haven't yet, you should subscribe. Subscribe before April 15th and get BCR #1 and #2 for the unbelievably low rate of ten dollars; subscribe after April 15th and get BCR #2 and #3 for $12.

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Us: That's not funny.