> the good news is that we are still looking for submissions. here at chocolate thunder, however, we try to maintain the highest level of professionalism possible. we cannot be bothered by hack amateurism unless it's professionally polished hack amateurism, which is ok.

see, it's not easy being the absolute best. that's why we hand-pick the berries for each pie and grind the beans only seconds before we make the coffee. it takes more time, but we're sure you'll agree, it tastes better!

as you may have noticed, the bar has been set pretty low for cartoons (no offense to our sole contributing cartoonist), so pretty much anybody with a stick figure and a halfway decent joke, come on down!

we're also looking for short stories and essays and poetry and imagined dialogues and so on. the only real criteria we have is that it be original -- we don't want to be sued and will hold any contributor entirely responsible for the authenticity of his or her work -- and either funny or clever (both would be acceptable). in case you haven't caught on, there's almost nothing we won't do for a good laugh.

we use a hybrid of "associated press" and chicago styles. our preferred dictionary for usage is "random house unabridged, first edition." <