I was notified yesterday that my flash fiction story, “Bedfellow” has been accepted by KNOCK, a literary journal affiliated with Antioch University Seattle, for publication in their November issue, #15.  I had gotten so used to seeing rejections that when I read the subject line of the e-mail, “KNOCK Acceptance”, I needed a moment to parse it.  I could not quite grasp what I read.

Then elation set in, and I had a goofy grin on my face for at least half an hour.  Not what one usually expects to see from someone stuck working late at work.  Work didn’t matter though.  Sure, I put in over three hours of overtime, but I didn’t notice them.

I didn’t do any work on my writing last night.  I felt I deserved an evening off.  Then, first thing this morning, I revised three prose poems, a flash fiction piece and a manuscript I’m working on for a picture book.  After all, an acceptance is a step, not the goal.

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For those of you who might be wondering about the state of my first acceptance, I’m a bit curious myself.  I was assured a little while back that the next issue, containing my story “Shooting Free Throws”, should be published by about August.  So here’s hoping.

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Submissions update: since my last post, I have submitted pieces to the Los Angeles Review, Conjunctions, and A Public Space.

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