#1. It’s crammed full of eerie, sexy, sweet, bizarre, and truthful short-short stories.
#2. It’s written by twenty-two of the most shamefully talented writers around today—you wouldn’t want to be the last person to be aware of the next wave of literature-makers, would you?
#3. It’s pretty, and will look so lovely on your bedside table that people will be flocking to share your pillow.
#4. It’s an enjoyable and easy way to support indie literature—if you want the book world to consist of more than airport thrillers and chick lit, put your money where your morals are.
#5. It will enable the editors to produce Issue 2, then Issue 3, then a print anthology, then a Best Of, then a monthly issue, then a weekly issue; eventually they will take over the world, and if you use your copy of Issue 1 as a passport they promise to make you the ruler of a small country.