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Friday, July 6, 2012

Control Your Wrath, O Rejected One

Posted on 7:22 AM by humpty
The weather turned nasty out there, hurricane like last week. Maybe they shouldn't have rejected you so glibly:
Thank you for sending us your manuscript to the Antioch Review. The return of your work does not necessarily imply criticism of its merit, but may simply mean that it does not meet our present editorial needs. We regret that circumstances do not allow individual comment. The Editors
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