TOUCH THE EVIDENCE
Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.
Small Press Alert: The Envelope With No Return Address
A tiny mail-only press asks writers to submit something worth making the postal service nervous about.
PRESS FOR REASSURANCE
Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.
A new micropress calling itself THE ENVELOPE WITH NO RETURN ADDRESS accepts submissions only by physical mail.
No email. No portal. No tracking spreadsheet.
Writers are instructed to send “one thing you would regret losing” in a plain envelope with no cover letter.
Accepted work is photocopied into a folded pamphlet and mailed back to every contributor along with one unexplained object from a junk drawer.
Issue One reportedly included a poem, a grocery list, a photograph of a broken fence, and a tiny brass key that fit nothing.
This is either publishing or evidence.
We approve.
SAM ROOK
Sam Rook keeps an eye on tiny presses, strange publications, Xerox economies, and editorial projects held together by staples and nerve.
Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.
PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON
A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.