This Week in Rejection!: Madison Review 2

If you've been following This Week in Rejection! for a while, then you know that I am -- retroactively -- most thrilled by those rejections which have some element of personal contact to them. At the time I received them, I could not understand that such rejections were good signs, indications that I'd made some care enough to want to say something other than just "No." Looking back now, I am astounded that I wasn't able to take these sorts of rejections as good news.

I'd been rejected by Madison Review before. But this time...

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Her Decade
By: llburk on Sat February 18, 2012, 22:49:02

So did you take his/her advice? I've read your short story and liked it very much. Is the version you have posted your original or did you work on it some more after this letter?

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Re: This Week in Rejection!: Madison Review 2
By: Barry on Sun February 19, 2012, 10:34:51

With minor tweaks, the story here on barrylyga.com is the same as the one I wrote a million years ago.