ABOUT

In the beginning, a burning bush appeared to Mike Neff, editor and publisher at Web Del Sol. He'd had a long day, scouring the web for poems that were actually good, stories that strayed from the formatic middle class boilerplate. He looked outside his window in Vriginia, and the bush spake to him.

"Mike," the bush said.

"Yes," Mike replied.

"I have an idea," the bush said. "We need to have another webzine, one with a mascot of a guy who looks like he's from a new wave band, such as Gene Loves Jezebel, a guy who wears a checkerboard top hat and looks vaguely French. This mascot will never look at you—instead, he will only show you the top of his hat, pouting a bit, showing off his new wave lipstick."

And, with a few more flickers of the bush, the contracts were hammered out, the .jpg computer image of the pouty, top hat-wearing new wave guy was found, and another web-based literary mag was born. And Mike saw that it was good.

The yellow-and-orange color scheme came later, with the pagan holiday of hallow's eve as the inspiration this time, and with the bush's approval, the colors were adopted.

Four issues later, La Petite Zine is still going strong, keeping alive the notion that writing can be immediate, mystical, cheeky, high-maintenance, life-changing, and full of whimsy.

But enough of our yakkin'. Let's boogie!