[alawston]

Walk away. Publish your own stuff through Amazon. Ignore them. Never mind the lawyers. Just waste any more time and money on this. What are they, realistically, as a broke small press, going to do anyway? Threaten you with lawyers? Hahahahahaha. Tell them where to stick their lawyers. Seriously don't be intimidated by this sort of BS.

Yeah, this is pretty much the route I'm taking with a short story that's contractually stuck in a precarious small press's going-nowhere anthology for the next 15 months.