With Rejection Letters Like These, Who Needs Acceptances? (Me, But This Is Nice)

Adi,

Thanks so much for submitting your story, “Survival Song” to The Missouri Review for our consideration. We greatly enjoyed reading this, and found much to admire in the prose and characterization. Unfortunately, we ultimately decided that this particular story was not quite a perfect fit for our current needs. We do like your writing though, and we’d love to see more in the future, so please submit to us again. Thanks for thinking of us, and for continuing to support TMR. We wish both you and this story the very best of luck going forward.

Regards,
The Editors

09:16 pm, by somewhereoverthesunnovel 13
Notes
  1. centuryofsolitude said: Ah. How many of these have I gotten in the mail over the past year? George R. R. Martin was reported to have gotten like 99 before selling his first story, so….. Yeah.
  2. erosion-of-beauty said: I live in Missouri! :D That is all.
  3. darcibastiaan said: I rather have an editor stick a cucumber up my ass and tell me to wipe that bewildered look of my face.
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