Wow! It’s starting to rain submissions. They’re beginning to pour in.

Two short stories and three poems in one day. Excellent.

But I’ll wait to read them because I’ve been sick as a dog the last twenty hours or so. Food poisoning maybe, or a particularly wretched flu.

It does my potential contributors no favour to struggle through a first reading while resisting the urge to vomit. And for all the wrong reasons too.

I think I’ll wait till I’m in a more impartial frame of mind. Will get back to everybody within a week or less. As someone who spent 40 years waiting for word from assorted persnickety editors I figure I owe it to contributors to respond ASAP. I know the pain of waiting.

Issue#2 IS full up, so anything I select from now on will be going into issue #3 which may not come out till January. And there’s a special “themed” issue for later in 2017 I may put contributions aside for. More on that in the near future.

Cheers! The Graeme

In addition to the items listed in the previous post, three more items have slipped in under the wire as last minute additions to the bulging file of Polar Borealis #2.

They are:

Two poems by Colleen Anderson: PILOT FLIGHT and SHORT SIGHTED, both with rich and beautiful imagery,

And a short story, A MATTER OF ANTIMATTER, by Ron Friedman, which I think readers will find delightfully whimsical.

Publication of PB #2 has been pushed back to July, but I will publish earlier if at all possible.

Meanwhile, I am always open to submissions. Don’t yet know when the third issue will be ready, but no later than January of next year and hopefully earlier.

Cheers all!   The Graeme

I am very happy to report it looks like Polar Borealis #2 is complete. Still needs lots of preparation, editing, and proofreading, and the contracts have yet to be sent out, but I’m hoping for publication by the end of June, or sometime in July at the latest. Earlier, if possible, of course.

Here is the projected table of contents to whet your enthusiasm:

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR POLAR BOREALIS #2

00) – EDITORIAL – R. Graeme Cameron

00) – THE NATURE OF DEMONS – by Stan G. Hyde

00) – THE ENTHRALLERS’ VALHALLA – (Poem) by Rissa Johnson

00) – THE SEARCHERS – by Steve Fahnestalk

00) – ROOMMATE – by Michael John Bertrand

00) – MOONTRACE – (Poem) by Mary Choo

00) – MUSHROOMS – (Poem) by Eileen Kernaghan

00) – TOUGH CROWD – by Holly Schofield

00) – PINK VENUS – (Poem) by Rhea Rose

00) – THE NIGHT ATLANTIS BURNED – by David Perlmutter

00) – DEVOURED – (Poem) by J. Y. T. Kennedy

00) – ARTIST IN A LANDSCAPE – by R. Graeme Cameron

00) – SONNET 13 A&C – (Poem) by Rissa Johnson

00) – THE CUP – by Catherine Girczyc

00) – MAJOR MAX – by dvsduncan

00) – RUNNING OUT OF TIME – (Poem) by Eileen Kernaghan

00) – ANONYMOUS TIP – by Nina Munteanu

00) – ARBORVITAE – (Poem) by Rhea Rose

00) – THE HAT THING – by Matthew Hughes

00) – ROSETTA 2051 – (Poem) by Mary Choo

00) – THE GUY WITH THE EYES – by Spider Robinson

(Note: Background art by Eric Chu)

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