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You've reached the Whistling Shade forum, a web journal containing informal and improvisational updates, musings, announcements and scribblings from the editors of Whistling Shade literary journal (www.whistlingshade.com). View it as a thought experiment, a peek behind the scenes of a small lit mag, the diary of madmen (& madwomen), or even a sort of underground publication in its own right.

I think we will mainly be using this venue for missives betwix & between me (Joel Van Valin, aka the Whistler, quixotic publisher) and our brave band of editors. But other readers will be free to comment on the topics.

So, anyway, I hereby cut the tape and open this forum to citizens of the world & literary devotees everywhere. Let the games begin!