A milestone number in the press's print annual, edited by Eckhard Gerdes. The fiftieth issue marks a journal launched in 1986 alongside Depth Charge Press and kept running since.

A general issue, as opposed to one of the journal's Festschrift volumes for Federman, Barth, or Jaffe, is assembled from open submissions of innovative prose: no shared theme, no tribute subject, just the strongest experimental work in English the editor found for that cycle. The result is a cross-section of the form as it actually stood at print, voice by voice, intended to give idiosyncratic writers a home the commercial houses would not offer.