Contributor: Brent Rankin - - This was hell. The crumpled rejection slips he held were hell. How many times he’d submitted the same story to this ungrateful magazine? Twenty? Thirty times? “Your story doesn’t fit our motif…” “Too risqué…” “Too short…” Too long…” Every conceivable reason for turning down his story. All this humiliation for four cent a word. But they would publish it. He’d change a word here, a phase there. He’d mail it off, again. They had to publish it! “Please quit sending us this drivel. We’ve rejected it numerous times for numerous reasons…” Another change here. Delete a sentence there. He sent it off again. “Sir, enough is enough. We will publish this trash when hell freezes over!” Curt, to the point, abrupt, but wrong. He knew they were wrong. So, sitting at his keyboard, he wrote. And...

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Author: Brent Rankin