Ah, rejection, how I love thee…wait, that’s not right.

I got my official rejection from McSweeney’s yesterday for their Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award.  It was a longshot anyway, but I’m still disappointed.

That leaves four short fiction submissions still out there for consideration, including one very overdue one to McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.  With rejections having a nasty habit of coming in little painful groups I’ll be steeling myself up…