Mailed It!

Today, you may remember (if I mentioned it, did I?) was The Day.  D-Day.  The day I sent Semantics to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  I only needed a little help to get it done.

Yeah, right.  I put it off all day long.  My friend Phoenix in Illinois came home from work and reported she’d sent off her story.  I hadn’t even printed mine out yet.  So I did.  Printed the cover letter, too.  And sat here.  Bly asked when the post office closed, I told her I had less than an hour.  And yet I was still here.  Finally she turned around and asked me if I really wanted Phoenix coming down here to kick me.  (the deal was, we were to send them off on the same day.)

Fine.  Pout.  I got my purse and my kid and went out the door.  Came back and grabbed my manuscript.  Setting the keys down as I did.  Came back and got my keys.  Bly snatched up Hope’s bright orange suction cup-dart gun and threatened me.

Pout.

But I did send it!  Now to wait eight weeks and try not to think about it, yet remember to nag in two months’ time if I haven’t heard anything, since we are planning on changing addresses and phone numbers…

Oh.  Word count is…lemme check.  27,293.  So 1,280 words.  Yay!

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