Welcome to Ruby's Pearls Paperless Elecmag:

    Ruby's is dedicated to fiction short stories, and may
    frequently contain satirical spoofs, meant to amuse and  
    entertain. No offense is intended to any individual, group or
    organization, and the broad spectrum of characterization is 
    intended to be so outlandish as to obviously establish its  
    humorous intent. Any resemblance to people, places or  
    associations, living or dead, active or defunct, is purely  
    coincidental.

    So much for the disclaimer!  What we like are humor shorts, mystery
    shorts, and science fiction/horror shorts.  We avoid graphic sex and
    violence, but not to please Exon and his ilk.  Ruby's Pearls is a
    family publication, though my family at least tends to favor an
    occasional decapitation.

    To review our writers' guidelines, read a couple of back issues.
    What you see there is what we like.

    We don't pay for stories, but we also don't charge for the magazine.
    Ruby's Pearls is available on many fine BBSes, including Ruby
    Begonia's home BBS in Jacksonville, Florida, Ruby's Joint.  Ruby
    also has her own ftp site.  To acquire RP by ftp:
 
    ftp ftp.gate.net
    login: anonymous
    Password: [your e-mail address]
    cd /pub/users/ruby
    binary [very important; this ensures the .ZIP shows up as a .ZIP!]
    get rubyvXX.zip (XX=any issue number up through 62, October 1996)

    Ruby is also available at her very own home page:
    http://www.gate.net/~ruby

    If you have any additional questions, please contact me via e-mail
    at mrhahn@netcom.com.  We accept submissions via e-mail in ASCII or
    uuencoded word-processor formats.

    Thanks again for your interest in Ruby's Pearls.