Just a Lark

I’ve received my first rejection letter, and in only three weeks! Of course, it looks nothing like what’s above (though I wouldn’t mind getting that either), but all in all I’m actually quite pleased with myself. What I got in the mail wasn’t a form letter, but rather a personalized letter from the editor. He […]

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I’ve always thought of myself as a writer of sorts. I remember making Choose Your Own Adventure fiction in the fourth and fifth grade in lieu of reports, which were presumably accepted because they were somehow still tangentially related to the topic assigned. I remember daydreaming of my own bizarre plots […]

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My eyes shoot open as I bolt upright with a gasp. Everything that happened in the past few hours comes back to me at once, and I’m overwhelmed with images and painful memories of all the yelling and screaming, the escape, and the accident. The accident!
“Are you all right, Maggie?”
I look up and […]

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