Several rejections. That’s all. Ugh.

I also had to withdraw another story from a market that either has a response time approaching nine months, or has gone dead to the world while leaving their website up. I don’t know — could be a spam filter thing on either side. Weird.

I won’t mention who they are here, because knowing my luck, said party will come back with vitriol about how they were still sitting on my sub. Which begs the question: Why the heck didn’t you respond to my two prior queries, sent months apart?

More than likely, the magazine either only responds to acceptances, which is a practice that needs to die in this industry, or said market ghosted and left their website active without so much as a “stop submitting” heads-up.

Either way — marked as dead, moving on, slightly annoyed.