Well, it’s a new year, and a new Defenestration. Welcome to the January 2009 issue!I’m all alone at Defenestration HQ. Everyone’s at the presidential inauguration. I don’t get to go because someone thought it would be funny if they chained me to a radiator with a pair of handcuffs from an adult novelty shop. I don’t have any proof as to who did this, but I have a pretty short list of suspects.

Whoever did this to me was nice enough to leave me a laptop, a bottle of water, and a box of Cracker Jacks, so I think I can survive till morning. Hopefully I’ll be able to use some MacGuyver-like skills and fashion the removable unicorn tattoo from the Cracker Jack box into a lock pick.

Anyway, this month we have some prose by Carolyn McGovern, Eirik Gumeny, Micah Cratty, Stephanie Kraner, and the collaborative tag-team of Jeff Crouch and Christopher Woods. We also have poetry by Daniel Gallik, Jason Barber, and Jonathan Kessler, and an all-new Defenestrati strip by Eddie Grant. It’s a great start to the year, and I’m sure you’ll agree.

—Andrew Kaye, editor-in-chief