Ever Get A Feeling Of Déjà Vu?There are many things which can be said of the Modern World, and one of those is the amount of ‘noise’ when it comes to finding something - anything - that makes you sit up and say I like that. And sometimes, by the time that happens, the ‘item’ has passed by and gone, washed out of sight by the riptide of The Next New Thing to surf across your attention.

Which is why, whenever we open the doors to new projects and submissions, we also see pieces passed to us with the offer of reprinting them. Some may only have a paper history, some may only have been up on a webzine site – placed for a short period of time before being archived into the depths of an ISP’s hosting server.

And there are also those pieces which, quite rightly, authors may have a fondness for – the joyful offspring of their creative minds, regardless of how twisted they might be (the offspring that is, rather than the minds of their creators), and which they feel are deserving of a second read. Those saying it again are: Brandon Barrows, Anthony Regolino, Madeleine McDonald, Nikki Knight, Michele Bazan Reed, Lyn Fraser, Michael Wiley, Eve Fisher, John Floyd, Michael Cahlin, Kevin R.

Tipple, Lev Raphael, Andrew Darlington, Nick Young, John Kojak, and Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Hopefully by presenting these pieces here, you’ll start looking at various magazine and webzine archives, in search of something that may have passed you by, or that you missed the first time around.

And, as always with all of these anthologies, we hope you’ll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your regular comfort zone — and puts you into a completely new one because, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press motto:You never know what you like until you read it. .