C List

Yesterday The Los Angeles Review said “they read my work with interest” but my piece “did not fit their editorial needs.“ I think of this as an upgrade. Submitting work is like reality TV; somewhere, Kris Jenner is telling me “you’re doing great, sweetie!” while taking endless pictures of me. The pictures are fuzzy and ultimately no one understands my creativity. I am a C list celebrity. I think of the editors down there in LA, getting lost after paragraph eight. They supposedly stop reading after a certain point. I wonder if anything resonates, if they took anything away from it. But I’m already making edits, submitting it somewhere else and landing in the slush pile like the Game of Thrones finale, disagreeable, blasphemy.