One of our goals at 19whiskeys.com is to get you, the readers, more involved. A good way to join in on the fun is to submit something for us to post right here in the fiction section. You’ll get all kinds of crazy internet people to judge you, plus a free coffee mug, and we just might get a day off. We’re not looking for Shakespeare or Hemingway, but a few levels better than a blog is the minimum requirement.

Please send your submissions to submit@19whiskeys.com. The subject line should read “submission” (Clever eh?), and only whatever it is that you are submitting should be in the body of the email. Don’t tell us that it’s your favorite story or that you won a blogging competition or anything like that. If you do, our editors will assume your story starts out “I really love your website. Please include my story” and to be honest, that’s not a good beginning. If somebody here likes what they’ve read, they will contact you and the “I’m-featured-in-the-19whiskeys.com-fiction-section” circus will start.

In the meanwhile, pick a story from the archives below:

• An Excerpt from Venganza
• An Excerpt from Devil May Care
• Semiprecious