short stories

Number two!

Does this have anything to do with the fact that I had just bought my mom three copies? In any case, I’m back down to something like seventeen in the Canadian Short Stories category.

So, if you’re interested in getting a copy, how do you do it?

  1. Kobo: epub;
  2. Amazon: kindle;
  3. Amazon: paperback print-on-demand;
  4. Local area peeps: I have a bunch of paper copies coming by the end of the month. You can buy them off me if you are local once they come in. I will let everyone know when they are here.
  5. As someone who has spent the last ten years un- or under-employed, if you would like a copy but it just isn’t in your finances right now, just send me a line and I will send you an epub or a PDF if you’d like. If you are local, I can lend you a paper copy when they come in. I understand how frustrating it is in this stage of late-capitalism to even try to survive, let alone buy any non-necessities.

And, if reading or short stories aren’t your thing, just send me a smile and be on your way 🙂

I just can’t

Look, I just can’t submit to any more journals that need me to pay some fee to do so. Or contests with $25 fees. I made $25 last year from writing, and the suggestion, with this $25 I earned, was that maybe I would like to donate it back to the magazine in question.

I am trying to write again. And today, I’m going through and submitting everything that hasn’t been submitted in a while. But, refusing to pay $3 here or $4 there or $25/$35/$50 contest submission fees really shrinks the possibilities. Plus the paper-only ones, like I want to buy an envelope, pay for postage, pay for return envelope stamp, only to have them email me their rejection because while I am forced to go old school, they are allowed not to?

I am sad and I am angry and I am not making a sustainable wage, so sorry all you journals/websites/etc., I can’t subsidize you any more.

let’s keep those rejections coming!

There’s got to be a point where I say enough. When will I reach that point? I guess it’s not today as I am sending that story right back out again.

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I also think I would like to Misery Charles Yu, as I only started Interior Chinatown yesterday evening, I am almost done it, and then what am I supposed to do with my life? Re-read his other books again? And after I do that? Huh? HUH? HUHHHHH??!?!?!