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Cyberspace-- "His head cracks the floor. Fingers claw some non-existent insect. Eyelids remain ajar. Gravity presses the body to the carpet, holding it there, gloating, triumphant in the wrestle. But it is not over yet." Alas, this excerpt is. Finished. Kaput. To find out how from Benedict Ciantar's short story ends, you'll have to browse to the Blithe House Quarterly, an on-line journal of queer literature. More specifically, literature for the time-challenged homosexual. Quick Lit, Lit Lite. "Internet-based fiction journals have become a significant force in publishing, especially for serious short fiction," declares the Baltimore City Paper. "In Web-only lit journals such as Blithe House Quarterly, the short-story form is alive and clicking." Currently featured is the "Winter 2002" issue, dubbed the "Australian." The Winter issue? That's a bit rich, with Sydney recently ablaze in summer brush fires (set largely, it turns out, by errant boys). Can't these Aussie lads get their hands on something meatier, more pleasure-giving than match sticks? And why would an Internet journal, based in the timeless nowhere of cyberspace, number its issues by the seasons? Could Blithe's editors be so blighted by Northern-hemisphericentrism that they can't judge good Australian writing if it hit them in the blocker? Browse to www.blithe.com and judge for yourself.