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17Jan2010

Rejected by McSweeney's I

Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 12:27PM

Excited to announce that I've already knocked out one of the To-Dos on my New Year's Accomplishments ...

5) Write a story, submit it somewhere for publication and get my first real rejection letter out of the way.

So I wrote a list for McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

I've been listening to librivox's free recordings of books in the public domain, specifically the third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories The Return of Sherlock Holmes; it was the inspiration for

Twelve Suppressed Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1. The Case of the Bawdhouse Midget

2. The Finaler Solution

3. The Crooked Merkin

4. The Case That Wasn’t Really a Case So Much As it Was Yet Another Instance of SOMEone Showing Off His Powers of Deduction and Making Someone Else Look Like Quite The Ass

5. The Case of the Twatford Jugglers

6. The Albermarle Menses

7. The Spoilt Spotted Dick

8. The Washerwoman’s Pessary

9. The Case of the Patient Knife Grinder

10. The Account of the Thrice-Violated Scullion

11. The Workhouse Matron’s Awful Sausage Machine

12. The Baker Street Abattoir

After about two weeks, I received word back from McSweeney's.

Yay me! 2010's is off to a great start. Seriously. This was a big step for me. Who knows where this will lead?

What I'd like to do is keep submitting, though I wonder how often one submits before one's emails get summarily routed to the Trash rather than getting read and considered?

I'll make a point to post the rejected ones here once I receive word that they've been rejected so you'll get to watch. Lucky you, right?

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