From The Editor
Dear Anyone Who Thinks Christmas Cards Need More Bloodstains, Last year we published the first Gritmas anthology. We asked writers to send us stories about the holidays that weren't interested in selling nostalgia. We got stories about people trying to survive. Criminals, workers, addicts, parents, failures, and the occasional decent human being caught in bad circumstances. Then people actually bought the damn thing. And because they did, we were able to donate every dollar raised to Feed The Children . The money went right where it was supposed to. No awareness campaign, no branding exercise, no self-congratulatory nonsense. Just groceries for kids who needed them. Since that worked out better than expected, we're doing it again. Submissions are now open for the next Gritmas anthology. We're looking for gritty Christmas stories. Noir, crime, working-class literature, dark comedy, literary fiction, or anything else that lives in that neighborhood. We want st...