Scathing is not a complete sentence.

I got a rejection of my newest short story today. It was pretty harsh. I suppose I should be glad that someone took the time to read it and offer insightful commentary; but a lot of it really stung. A few things strike me as preferences rather than absolutes, but I don't know. Does everything really have to be a complete sentence? I hope not. Can a room smell like stale sorrow? I daresay it can.

Anyway, such things shake my confidence to the core and I didn't end up working on my new novel at all tonight. I made hats for the girls in Group instead. I made one girl a hat 2 weeks ago and now everybody wants one. Happily, I have all night tomorrow to work on my new scary story.

The story in question is up, unlocked at wednes_writes. Maybe some of you can tell me if its got a weak opening and closing. I'm not saying it's flawless, but goddamn; I don't think it was worthy of a mighty blasting and not one nice comment.

Wait, do editors or potential publishers bother saying nice things about rejected stories? Maybe that was overly optimistic of me.

So yeah, if anybody needs a hat they should let me know. ;-]