Back to the drawing board

Well, I finally heard back on my submissions to Penumbra and, unfortunately, they did not make the cut. My tale Gothilocks is an admixture of Fairy Tale, Gothic Horror and Black Humor, which most readers can't seem to figure out what to make of, so I didn't expect much; still, as Penumbra editor S.T. Joshi is generally supportive of my work, I figured I would give him a try. Lamentably, he is not a fan of humor in horror, so it didn't grab him as my submissions generally do. Alternatively, I have long considered making it into a picture book, or even a puppet play.
The other piece, Feretrina, struck him as "a rather elementary supernatural revenge vignette." He is right, and I know it. Despite the supernatural trappings, there isn't much to the tale and if I hope to publish it properly some day, I need to work on it some more, or perhaps abandon it all together and write something better in a similar vein. Oh well, back to the drawing board.