And on what would have been my 501st rejection...

...I sold a story -- "The Assocation of the Dead" -- to Clarkesworld Magazine.

I've been slowly watching it creep up the online submissions queue for twenty-seven days (well, it's mostly been paused at number two). Given that it usually takes only three or four days for them to reject me, this has given me alot of time to ponder how I would feel if it we…