Dear Anxiety, I have received your application for the position of Mood of the Month. You were one of many well-qualified candidates. However, I’m sorry to inform you that I’ve selected another applicant. You are, […]
Rejection Letter: Mother’s Day Edition
It is an interesting piece and I’m sure it will find a place, but I’m afraid that place is not My Life.
Rejecting Spring
Don’t want muddy tracks on a floor still dirty from melted snow to be how I know it’s spring. Freshly blooming flowers don’t worry about six feet or face masks, but they need rain and […]
Random Desire Knows My Name
and then I gave in by sipping a little more to make the corridor between me and my feelings longer
Rejection Letter: Kevin Sterne
Thank you, again, for choosing in front of my apartment at 1 a.m. as a place to fight with each other.
Feelings About Carpet
One year gone, but she can’t give up stalking her ex online.
On Getting One Hundred Rejections in a Month: A Personal Interview
I had all the confidence to cultivate forever this one bloom;
It would forever be the prettiest thing in my mind.
Rejection Letter: Jane Barron de Burgh
For a while, you kept me warm. But never warm enough that I do not notice the piece of lettuce stuck to my shoe.
Sorry, not Sorry
I am so sorry, I want you to know
How truly sorry I am.
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