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May 17
1 Rejection from Seize the Press - Fiction
(12 days)
May 16
2 Rejections from After Happy Hour - Fiction
(ranging from 58 to 71 days)
1 Rejection from Alocasia - Fiction
(0 days)
1 Rejection from Azure - Fiction
(105 days)
2 Rejections from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
(ranging from 7 to 8 days)
1 Rejection from BFS Horizons - Fiction
(323 days)
1 Rejection from Blood + Honey - Fiction
(10 days)
5 Rejections from Blue Unicorn
(89 days each)
1 Rejection from Brown Hound Press
(2 days)
2 Rejections from Clarkesworld Magazine - Fiction
(ranging from 1 to 3 days)
7 Rejections from Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Originals)
(ranging from 3 to 37 days)
3 Rejections from Illustrated Worlds - Fiction
(ranging from 67 to 71 days)
4 Rejections from Interzone
(ranging from 3 to 13 days)
1 Rejection from Iron Fang Press
(18 days)
1 Rejection from Ninth Letter (Print) - Fiction
(165 days)
1 Rejection from Potomac Review - Fiction
(239 days)
4 Rejections from Seize the Press - Fiction
(ranging from 11 to 19 days)
3 Rejections from Small Wonders - Fiction
(ranging from 206 to 208 days)
1 Rejection from Strange Horizons - Fiction
(117 days)
3 Rejections from The Drift - Fiction
(ranging from 70 to 71 days)
1 Rejection from The Journal: A Literary Magazine - Fiction
(64 days)
1 Rejection from The Paris Review - Nonfiction
(103 days)
1 Rejection from THEMA - Fiction
(105 days)
9 Rejections from Three-Lobed Burning Eye
(15 days each)
1 Rejection from Unlikely Stories Mark V - Fiction
(84 days)
Acceptance from Unlikely Stories Mark V - Fiction (84 days)
(Congratulations Keith Vile!)
(Congratulations Keith Vile!)
4 Rejections from Utopia Science Fiction - Fiction
(ranging from 63 to 98 days)
1 Rejection from Waxwing - Fiction
(47 days)
Acceptance from Wish You Were Here (46 days)
May 15
Acceptance from 4LPH4NUM3R1C (ALPHANUMERIC) - Poetry (10 days)
(Congratulations We must delete all the PDF FILES!)
(Congratulations We must delete all the PDF FILES!)
1 Rejection from 4LPH4NUM3R1C (ALPHANUMERIC) - Fiction
(13 days)
1 Rejection from 4LPH4NUM3R1C (ALPHANUMERIC) - Poetry
(14 days)
Acceptance from After The Storm - Fiction (114 days)
(Congratulations Andrew K. Langley!)
(Congratulations Andrew K. Langley!)
3 Rejections from Analog Science Fiction & Fact - Fiction
(ranging from 57 to 104 days)
2 Rejections from Apex Magazine - Fiction
(ranging from 56 to 57 days)
Acceptance from Apex Magazine - Fiction (73 days)
1 Rejection from Arcturus - Fiction
(60 days)
5 Rejections from Banshee (Magazine) - Poetry
(53 days each)
1 Rejection from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
(55 days)
1 Rejection from Berkeley Fiction Review
(88 days)
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