Unbelievable excerpts from Backwards City #2 are now online.

Just for starters, consider "In Five Hundred Years Comics" and "Brutus the Robot" by Kenneth Koch, "Robot Building with Parent and Me" by Paulette Poullet, and the much-linked, never-duplicated, excruciating third-degree burn that is Patricia Storms's "The Amazing Adventures of Lethem and Chabon."

Our bond-company stooge doesn't want us putting up the full text of stories anymore, so excerpts are all you get of Chris Bachelder, 1st Place Fiction Award Winner Alika Tanaka, and 2nd Place Fiction Award Winner Dave Housley. Our bond-company stooge doesn't check the blog, though, so hopefully he won't notice that we've put up the full text of Traci Burns's essay "Feet."

More poems will be coming online in the next few days, including some that are online-only, but until then you can whet your whistle on Dan Albergotti's "Book of the Father." (I'm not sure which poems we have online rights to, but I'm reasonably confident our dear friend Dan won't sue us.)

Still want more? Visit our corporate sponsor. Gaze in longing at the mouth-watering table of contents, the absolutely typo-free contributor notes, and the perplexing issue index. Wonder why all this cannot be yours. Then make it yours.

And have a good first day at school, kids.