Things 971 appreciated hearing:

-I discovered your publication about three weeks ago, and have been chowing down on the archives ever since.

-P.S. 971 was the beginning of my childhood phone number, and I once won a 9-7-1 trifecta ($780) at the track.

-Wow! Awesome job to you guys! The entire thing looks excellent.... I’ll be a reader as long as you keep at it.

-Thanks again for your care to this piece -- a lot of editors are happy to simply cut and paste -- so I appreciate the candor and dialogue.

-I’m thrilled to discover such a great site dedicated to short-shorts and flash.

-My kingdom for more people willing to say icky when they mean icky....

-I think all 4 stories this month are great. Really great, especially “Touch” and “Enough,” but then I’ve always been a sucker for stories about sanded-off fingertips and Coors-Light-drinking RV owners.

-The menu is lovely. I like the instructions on the front page. They got rid of my boredom fleas.

-Thanks so much.

-Just discovered 971 and very glad I did, some terrific writing up there; nice to be inspired now and then.

-Some editors are, well, not nearly as nice as you.

-Cheers.

-You have a coolio thing going on in 971 MENU!

-Wow! What a wonderful online magazine you’ve got going. I really find your website appealing :-) Good job!

-Too bad the guy got shot in the face... but I love the last part of that paragraph. Something about his beautiful mouth. I like hearing that a dead man had a beautiful mouth. It seems like a very important thing to remember about someone.

-Hello, I’ve heard fine things about your mag.

-Dear Editor,
You and your zine are really, really ridiculously good-looking.

-Thank you for your kind words.

-I appreciate the close reading and editing.

-Here’s a story I wrote while trying to write something else. I intended it to be the beginning of something, but I decided it was just fine as it was.

-I very much enjoy your journal.

-I am a fan of the stories you publish on the website and thought I would submit my own to you.

-I love your magazine.

-Sincerely,

-I found your site by looking for stories by my friend.... I really enjoyed everything I read there.

-The page looks wonderful! Thank you for taking time with this story, and I hope to work with you again.

-Um, definitely groovy.

-I particularly enjoyed....

Thank you for your comments, work, readership.

Authors who have appeared in 971 MENU have also appeared in, among others: Phantasmagoria, Gulf Stream, The Sonora Review, The Red Rock Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Stickman Review, Eclectica, Slow Trains, Flashquake, Snow Monkey, Pindeldyboz, Wandering Amy, The Dogtown Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Literary Mama, Lily, Blood Orange Review, Salome Magazine, Autumn Sky Poetry, Apple Valley Review, The Rambler, Arabesques Review, GlassFire Magazine, Crimson Highway, Static Movement, L’Italo-Americano, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Karamu, 55 Words, Juked, Orion Magazine, Amelia Magazine, Buffalo Spree, Acorn, Dark Sky Magazine, Ghoti, Siren, DiddleDog, Six Sentences, Ginosko Literary Journal, Laughter Loaf, Octaves Magazine, The Sidewalk’s End, The Bare Root Review, Salt River Review, The Café Review, Spork, Volt, Aura Literary Arts Review, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Cimarron Review, The Ranfurly Review, The Diagram, Voix du Vieux, The Emry’s Foundation Journal, Black Buzzard Review, March Street Press, Flutter Magazine, The Orange Room, Halfway Down the Stairs, The Jabberwock Review, Descant, The Santa Clara Review, Raging Face, Culture Freak, Socket Shocker, Fall of Autumn, Willow Springs, Font, The 2nd Hand, Baker’s Dozen Review, Pen Pricks, Flash Flooding, Flash Forward, Flashes of Speculation, Flashing in the Gutters, Acme Shorts, Barfing Frog, Unlikely Stories, 3AM Magazine, The Pedestal, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Babel, Vincent Brothers Review, Brink, L’Intrigue Magazine, The Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly, Bibliophilos, Route 66, Public Scrutiny, 3711 Atlantic, SlugFest, Ltd., Hobart, Phoebe, Pangolin Papers, Product, Glimmer Train, Best American Short Stories, The Listening Eye, and Axe Factory. To repeat, those were Phantasmagoria, Gulf Stream, The Sonora Review, The Red Rock Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Stickman Review, Eclectica, Slow Trains, Flashquake, Snow Monkey, Pindeldyboz, Wandering Amy, The Dogtown Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Literary Mama, Lily, Blood Orange Review, Salome Magazine, Autumn Sky Poetry, Apple Valley Review, The Rambler, Arabesques Review, GlassFire Magazine, Crimson Highway, Static Movement, L’Italo-Americano, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Karamu, 55 Words, Juked, Orion Magazine, Amelia Magazine, Buffalo Spree, Acorn, Dark Sky Magazine, Ghoti, Siren, DiddleDog, Six Sentences, Ginosko Literary Journal, Laughter Loaf, Octaves Magazine, The Sidewalk’s End, The Bare Root Review, Salt River Review, The Café Review, Spork, Volt, Aura Literary Arts Review, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Cimarron Review, The Ranfurly Review, The Diagram, Voix du Vieux, The Emry’s Foundation Journal, Black Buzzard Review, March Street Press, Flutter Magazine, The Orange Room, Halfway Down the Stairs, The Jabberwock Review, Descant, The Santa Clara Review, Raging Face, Culture Freak, Socket Shocker, Fall of Autumn, Willow Springs, Font, The 2nd Hand, Baker’s Dozen Review, Pen Pricks, Flash Flooding, Flash Forward, Flashes of Speculation, Flashing in the Gutters, Acme Shorts, Barfing Frog, Unlikely Stories, 3AM Magazine, The Pedestal, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Babel, Vincent Brothers Review, Brink, L’Intrigue Magazine, The Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly, Bibliophilos, Route 66, Public Scrutiny, 3711 Atlantic, SlugFest, Ltd., Hobart, Phoebe, Pangolin Papers, Product, Glimmer Train, Best American Short Stories, The Listening Eye, and Axe Factory.