All in all it's just...

...another (rejection) slip on the wall.

River Styx politely declined my short story "Hope Café." No feedback from them, though it's one of the prettier rejection slips I've gotten thus far. Actually, the slips aren't on my wall, but in a neat pile on my dresser. Maybe someday, once I finally get published, I'll frame them and then hang it next to my "454" sign which lists all of employers that I contacted but who had no use for me during the two year chasm I endured between finishing grad school and finally hooking up with IBM back in 1995.