When ‘Service’ made the first cut at Flash Fiction Online and was held for six months I got too hopeful. It had just slipped through the email cracks. The long-delayed rejection threw me off. Frustrated by this, I allowed the distractions of my real world to slow me down.

With my recent birthday I’ve renewed the quest for publication. I submitted all five completed speculative fiction stories yesterday: ‘Service’, ‘Detention’, ‘D.I.Y.’, ‘An Advance on Junior’, and even ‘The Ancient Bridge’, which I finally re-edited. I’ve chosen the top publications that accept electronic submission and I expect to be rejected, but as soon as they come in I’m sending them back out. All five will stay out until someone, besides me, puts them in print or online. ‘Detention’ was rejected by Fantasy Magazine, but I’ve already sent it back out.

Empty cover letters/boxes are sad and hurt the cause, but if I can just get one of them published, maybe we can get the ball rolling. That won’t happen if my little bits of electronic fun are just sitting on my hard drive gathering electronic dust. We’ll make it happen.

I better send one to Hypersonic Tales, they have been great!

On the consuming front, I’ve been listening to the recent episodes of EscapePod and reading Charlie Stross‘ Saturn’s Children.