25.11.03

Rejection contains an ejection.

I got my submission back from Analog Science Fiction magazine. There was no comment anywhere, as they indict you to expect given the hundreds of manuscripts they get a week.

But there were TWO enclosures, one ambiguously providing extended writing guidelines for the magazine, which seemed to modulate the spartan rejection of the other form letter. Did "they" include writer's guidelines as a form of unsignatured encouragement?

Unsignatured contains a sign. It also contains a nature. It also contains a gnat....oh nevermind.