Friday, February 04, 2005

It's All Coming Back to Me

This once-overplayed Celine Dion song is the cheeriest spin I can put on receiving yet another rejection for "Stranded", this time from Long Island University's lit mag, Confrontation. The highlights:

We regret we are unable to use and hence are returning the enclosed manuscript(s)...

We are sorry we cannot comment on work individually because of the demands of our regular and other editorial duties...

We attach a subscription/rate sheet should you be interested in purchasing copies of CONFRONTATION.     And thank you for letting us see your work.


The spacing before the last sentence makes it look like an afterthought. And by the way...

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