The Fortean Bureau is now closed to submissions indefinitely. We will be publishing our last issue (for the time being) in the first week of April. Thanks to everyone for their support.

Hi, thanks for stopping by the Fortean Bureau for our December 2005 issue. We've been making a lot of changes behind the scenes here in the past several months, as well as developing a format for a hybrid model to keep the Fortean Bureau running into the far future. This issue, we'd like to tell you a little bit about that.

This issue is an experiment.

Readers of The Fortean Bureau have come to expect outstanding short fiction written with a 'fortean' flair. However, after a bit of cajoling, Jeremy Tolbert agreed that I could edit the September issue, and that I could fill it with speculative and fortean poetry. My goal was to find poems that would read easily and be enjoyable at first blush, yet contain a elements of the unexplained. I think I succeeded. I sincerely hope you agree.

As a bonus for our readers I have included in this issue; "Dog Girls" in order to satisfy your short fiction thirst, a guest commentary by Bruce Boston, Grand Master of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and beautiful artwork by Marge Simon, Rhysling Award winning poet and artist. Enjoy!