I am new to Residential Aliens. Last year they published one of my stories, being the first place to publish anything I've written. The publication was a fluke. Mr. Perry, the regular editor of the online and print magazine, responded to one of my tweets about a story I was having trouble placing, and I decided then to send it his way. Clearly he liked it.
Issue #4 of the magazine is a special edition, though. Not because it includes anything I've written, which would represent a conflict of interest on my part for this review, but because John Ottinger, the infamous blogger at Grasping for the Wind, stole the editor's seat for this one issue,