#...enough

My teacher loved my little tragedies but my mother and grandmother didn't see the marketability in 'downer' stories and chastised me often for them.

It is painful that they may have been right.

It is also entirely possible that my stories just aren't good enough for the places I keep submitting to... but I can't find anywhere else that takes horror stories and doesn't have a 'no' list a mile long.

So I keep trying.

And they keep rejecting me.

Would be real nice, just once, to get more than a rote rejection. A little note of 'plot was thin' or 'lost the thread midway' maybe a 'too descriptive on the gore'.

Since I’m feeling like socially gracing whoever’s left here with my presence, I’ll be on Skype for a few more hours while I work on other things. Shoot me a message if you want to talk to The one and only Once-ler. Username is “Insomnia-ler” if you don’t know how to read my sidebar.