I updated the subscription information on the Kaleidtrope website -- and let slip a few quick details about the upcoming third issue. I'm still putting together the final table of contents, but the October issue will feature stories and poems from a terrific lineup of artists, including Bruce Holland Rogers, Stephen Graham Jones, and Mark Rich.

I think I want to make this my official rejection letter. Is that wrong?

I hate turning things down, even when they're awful, because they're almost always not awful, just a bad fit, not quite what I'm looking for, or better suited to somebody else. In a perfect world, every submission to Kaleidotrope would be wonderful, and I would have the space and wherewithal to print every last one of them.

That even a small percentage of them are wonderful still amazes me sometimes.