Yesterday I took a vacation day originally to go to my High School to read some Chaucer, but it got cancelled last minute due to some assembly or what not. And Chaucer reading was rescheduled for this coming Wednesday.
So instead of not taking a vacation day and slugging forth eight miserable hours in the temple of the gloaming, I stayed home anyway. This worked out superbly for me, as I received my 2nd packet comments yesterday and had all day to work, absorb, think, and send out a whole bunch of stuff for potential publication.
If I listened to Rap music ever, I might have said that Ice Cube's "Today is a Good Day" applied for yesterday. In reality, I may have mumbled, "Heute ist ein gutes Tag." or "Kyo wa ii desu yo." But really, no, I didn't do that, I did a lot of printing and E-submitting and coverletter writing, and a little bit of revising.
I sent out the following stories:
"Substrate" -- A story about M.D. Stein, a lonely man in a lonely and rotting apartment that receives [and obsesses over] a strange postcard proclaiming proudly in Sharpie: "HELLO FROM TULSA!"
"Alone at the Top" -- A story about twins, and death of the [other] self--it doesn't really work out how they planned it.
"Downtime" -- A story about Edgar and his mindtrip through all the [im]possibilities of his life that spreads out like the flat Nebraskan tundra before him.
Oh and also, for other folks interested in submitting things these days, Playboy has a very Rock n' Roll cash prize contest going on right now: http://www.playboy.com/magazine/fiction.html
I figured it'd be worth a shot.
So now for me, It's the waiting until I start hearing back from those stories, and the other ones that I'm currently working on are ship-shaped up enough to be heave-hoed out to the smarmiest buyer.
That's the news as I see it. Until next time...
1 comment:
Drew and Playboy?!?! Sounds delightfully naughty...
Seriously though, good luck. We'll talk soon.
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