Two of the submissions mentioned below have already come home to roost! Thanks to the editors for their quick responses. If only they had born better news. At times like this I am reminded of a classic (for me, at least) Charles Schultz Peanuts strip wherein we see Snoopy atop his dog house writing a letter to an editor who has, apparently, made a habit of sending the imaginative beagle's stories back to him. Snoopy writes, as I recall (it's been a while since I've seen this particular strip), something to this effect:

"Dear editor, why do you keep sending my stories back to me? Don't you know you are supposed to publish them and make me rich and famous?"