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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Instead of Twitter, we all should just move in next to each other on the same street. We could call it the writer's block.

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Tonight's the night. Tonight I leave out a plate of cookies for Submittable.

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1 year

I don't know if it's cringey or whatever to tweet about your acceptances, but I just got one from the The Florida Review and am super excited about it.

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25 days

I want my gravestone to read: Accepted elsewhere Thank you for your consideration

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1 year

It's my birthday today. Here's me holding a dog.

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10 months

I know it's cringe or whatever to tweet about your acceptances, but I just got one from Wigleaf and am super excited about it.

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2 years

Woke up in the middle of the night with a story idea. In a haze, I wrote it down in my notes app. Checked it this morning. All it said was outerspace water slide.

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11 months

What if every rejection included a cool animal fact? "Declined, but did you know hummingbirds are the only known birds that can fly backward?"

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6 months

Most people don't know this, but there was a fourth little pig who built his house out of literary rejection letters.

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Every time I feel lonely, I log into Submittable and scroll down to my 2019 in-progress submission and whisper: "Thanks for always being there, buddy."

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Not quite emerging or established but a mysterious third thing.

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Will Musgrove

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7 months

That feeling when you receive an acceptance from one of your dream journals after a string of 20ish rejections from them. A great way to start a Sunday.

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19 days

My Submittable at 2 a.m. last night: "U up? Here's a rejection."

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Will Musgrove

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5 months

I am honored to be among the finalists. 🎉🎉

The Florida Review

@TheFLReview

5 months

We are so excited to announce the finalists for our 2023-2024 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award! Congratulations🎉 - Mary Kate Coleman, “Wednesday Trash Day” - @Will_Musgrove , “After Last Call” - @kate_o_simonian , “The Screw”

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Will Musgrove

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1 year

Hey, you just rejected me and this is crazy. But here's another submission, so accept me, maybe.

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

The best part of waking up is an @xraylitmag acceptance in your cup.

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Will Musgrove

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6 months

It's my birthday today. Time for a beer and a cigar. Love you all ❤️

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10 months

I was drinking a Fresca on my lunch break and scrolling through my emails only to notice an acceptance from one of my all-time favorite journals, @PassagesNorth . Easily one of my top 3 lunch breaks.

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Will Musgrove

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4 months

✨️Oh hey, I'm in this. Thanks to everyone over at @IdentityTheory for giving my story such an amazing home and for nominating the piece. ✨️

Alternating Current Press

@altcurrent

4 months

The selections for the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology have been announced! Congrats to these great authors & pieces!

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9 months

When I first started seriously submitting, I used to dream about how cool it would be to have a piece in @PassagesNorth . Today, I do. Check out my latest flash about a mugger, a deadbeat dad, and a piano recital.

Getting Mugged by William Musgrove — Passages North

Managing editor Dacia Price on today’s short: Good dad : Bad dad. In this fabulist short, William Musgrove—expert of the genre—weaves a story of choice in which his characters are offered the miracle...

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Will Musgrove

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7 months

I'm honored to have a new story in @wigleaf today about grief, accepting loss, and drinking beers in a park. Check it out!

Wigleaf

@Wigleaf

7 months

new new: "We and Us," by Will Musgrove: @Will_Musgrove

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

For Halloween, I'm going as Submittable and will be handing out acceptances based on what candy I get.

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Will Musgrove

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8 months

Survived my first-ever reading. Thanks to the @pinchjournal for inviting me to read.

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2 years

Rejections, acceptances, and everything in between, write, write, write. Forever write, write, write.

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1 year

I have a new flash in @TheFLReview about buying stars and going supernova, and being remembered. Check it out. My dog likes it. Link to story:

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2 months

If you find a shell on the beach, put it to your ear to hear, "Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, we have..."

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1 year

All of my rejections are going as acceptances for Halloween.

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

2 years

Idea: A dating app that sends journal-like acceptances/rejections.

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Will Musgrove

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4 months

It's been a two-acceptance kind of day.

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Will Musgrove

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3 months

Honored to have two stories on the longlist: "Demolition" in @IdentityTheory and "My Brother the Venus Flytrap" in @VariantLit . Congrats to everyone else on the longlist and the top 50. A special thanks to all the editors and readers.

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3 months

The @Wigleaf Top 50 2024 & the Longlist are up! Thank you to our Guest Selecting Editor @MauriceRuffin & to our Readers & Associate Series Editors! Let’s celebrate writers, readers, & journals—all for very short fictions. All for the love: ! ❤️🌻✨

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Don't mind me. Just a proud plant parent of this hen and chicks I grew from a cutting.

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Will Musgrove

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2 months

That moment between when you finish a story that you're really proud of and before it starts getting rejections.

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Easy feedback method: Whenever you get a spam call, answer. And when they ask about your car warranty or whatever say, "Can I read you a story I've written first?"

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Will Musgrove

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1 year

I've made a French apple tart. Please clap.

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7 months

A literary journal, but its submission guidelines read like the side effects of a medication commercial.

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2 months

I have a new micro in @CincinnReview . It's about grief and sitcom laugh tracks. Check it out and thanks to all the amazing editors at The Cincinnati Review. ✨️

miCRo: "Laugh Track" by Will Musgrove

Will Musgrove approaches the topic of grief obliquely, from a narrator who imagines a memorial service they don't attend.

www.cincinnatireview.com

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

2 years

Journals should give out punch cards. That way your tenth rejection is always free.

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

4 months

This is what my Submittable looks like.

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

2 months

Celebrating an acceptance to @xraylitmag the only way I know how: drinking a beer while I water my plants. 🍺 🪴

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Will Musgrove

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6 months

I promise to stop posting baking stuff soon, but here's the chocolate ganache cake I made today. 🍫 🎂

Will Musgrove

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6 months

I might be baking. 🎂

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Will Musgrove

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1 year

Literary rejections can also double as Halloween decorations.

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Will Musgrove

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3 months

It's not the prettiest thing I've made, but here's the strawberry meringue cake. 🍓 🍰

Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

3 months

Fighting through the melancholy with some baking. 🥧 🍮

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

So, my wife just finished knitting her first pair of socks, and I'm super proud of her.

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

2 years

Might be a little too proud of my pepper harvest. So proud I made my partner take this dorky photo of me. 🌶

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

1 year

Awesome. My story "Scavenger Hunt" in @LigeiaMag made the longlist. Congrats to everyone on the longlist and top 50. And a special congrats to all the editors and readers, too.

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1 year

The @Wigleaf Top 50 2023 & the Longlist are up! Thank you to our Guest Selecting Editor @VenitaBlackburn & to our Readers & Associate Series Editors! Just another way to celebrate writers, readers, & journals—all for very short fictions—all for the magic:

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Will Musgrove

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7 months

Let me introduce you to the Good News Doggo. If you see this doggo, you will be blessed with good news.

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Will Musgrove

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3 years

Holy shit. I just received an acceptance from @trampset . I'm honored to be a part of such an amazing journal.

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Will Musgrove

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8 months

I have a new story in @havehadhavehad today about a dive bar, unicorns, and hope. Check it out if you wanna. And thanks to @clairehopple for selecting it.

Come On Down by Will Musgrove

I scrub the bathroom wall with a Magic Eraser sponge. Only the word “basement” in “There’s a unicorn in the basement” remains. For about two weeks, this Sharpie-written sentence of graffiti has...

www.havehashad.com

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

8 months

I have a new story in @EmergeJournal about a gas station, the lies we turn into dreams, and ghosts. Check it out if you wanna and read all the other awesome writers in the issue. 😊

Gas Station Liars

by Will Musgrove It was my first day, and Jimmy was supposed to be showing me how to work the cash register. Instead, he told me a story about how he once saw a ghost in the candy aisle. The spirit…

emergeliteraryjournal.com

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Will Musgrove

@Will_Musgrove

10 months

Thanks to everyone over at @IdentityTheory for the nomination and congratulations to all the other nominees. 🎉 ❤️

Identity Theory

@IdentityTheory

10 months

Congrats to this year's Best Small Fictions nominees!

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Will Musgrove

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9 months

Decorating gingerbread cookies and made this one for all my writing peeps.

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Will Musgrove

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3 months

I have a new flash in @forge_litmag about a waver, waving, and waving back. Check it out! And thanks to everyone over at The Forge for giving this one such a great home. 👋

The Waver - The Forge Literary Magazine

fiction by Will Musgrove

forgelitmag.com

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Today's my birthday. Cheers! 🍻

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Will Musgrove

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11 months

Awesome to get an acceptance from @pinchjournal on this foggy Thursday evening.

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Will Musgrove

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7 months

Didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but here's the red velvet ice cream cake I made yesterday.

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Had a dream where Submittable checked on me.

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Just submitted to the @havehadhavehad submission call like someone in a romcom dashing through an airport trying to stop someone else from getting on a plane.

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Will Musgrove

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3 months

Called my dad for Father's Day. Told him about a few rejections I've gotten lately. He said he was going to launch Proud Papa Literary Review to accept them all. Happy Father's Day!

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Will Musgrove

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1 year

Found a tree growing out of a beer can during my morning hike.

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Will Musgrove

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8 months

Thank you so much to everyone over @TheFLReview for the nomination. And congrats to all the other nominees. 😊 ❤️

The Florida Review

@TheFLReview

8 months

We are thrilled to announce our Best of Small Fictions Nominations! Best of luck to all nominees! @DesmondEverest , published in Aquifer @matt_leibel , published in Aquifer @Will_Musgrove , published in Aquifer @nickwhite1985 , published in print Vol. 47.1 #theflreview

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Back in @havehadhavehad today with a story about a party that lasts long after closing time. Thanks again to @blisster for selecting it.

After Last Call by Will Musgrove

Semisonic’s “Closing Time” faded. Lights flicked on. The bartender collected our empties and told us to “Make like a tree and leave.” We slid off our stools and staggered outside. Not ready for the...

www.havehashad.com

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Will Musgrove

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9 months

I promise I'll stop posting baked goods soon, but I'm really proud of this bûche de noël cake.

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Will Musgrove

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9 months

I haven't done much writing this week, but I did do some painting.

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2 years

My dog's shouldn't-you-be-writing face.

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8 months

ASMR, but it's just someone softly reading me a literary rejection letter.

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5 months

It didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but here's the strawberry rhubarb pie I made last night. 🥧

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Best way to cap off 2022: an acceptance from @StanchionZine .

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Will Musgrove

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5 months

😇 I have a new flash about evil twins in @hexliterary . Check it out! And thanks to all the editors for giving this story such a great home. 😈

Evil Twin by Will Musgrove

I’ve known you since you were born, which was when I was born. I’m your evil twin. Everyone has one. I was a part of you until I wasn’t. Then I watched you from the shadows—alleyways, unfurnished...

hexliterary.com

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Will Musgrove

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4 months

💀 I have a new story about cable installers, surfing, and getting fired in @havehadhavehad . Check it out! And thanks to @martinezfjulian for selecting it. 💀

Van Surfing by Will Musgrove

After fifteen-plus years of running coaxial cable through people’s homes, we were let go with one word: expendable. That’s what Jerry called us over the phone this morning before telling us to have...

www.havehashad.com

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Will Musgrove

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7 months

Before she takes her morning nap, Mabel wants to wish everyone a happy Thursday and say that she believes in you. ❤️ 🐕

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8 months

One of the trees in my yard this morning:

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Will Musgrove

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1 year

It's my five-year wedding anniversary. Here's a picture of us in 2013 when we first met.

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6 months

Literary discourse would be more fun if we all got together and had a pizza party afterward.

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2 years

Sure, Superman has bullet-proof skin. But has he ever gotten a rejection from a journal he's been dreaming about for months?

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7 months

Celebrating a Friday acceptance with beer and crosswords. 🍻

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Will Musgrove

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2 years

Woke up this morning to an acceptance from @IdentityTheory hiding in my inbox.

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Will Musgrove

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6 months

More literary rejections should be written on cakes. Getting the rejection would suck, but then you'd have cake. 🎂

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21 days

At 4 a.m. last night, I wrote down a story idea while loopy on sleep meds. Checked my notes app this morning, and it said, "Story in the shape of a crazy straw?"

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10 months

If one in-progress submission set off three months ago at 95 miles per hour, and another in-progress submission set off two weeks ago at 115 miles an hour, which will be rejected first?

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10 months

How come Hallmark doesn't make holiday cards that say, "Best of luck placing this elsewhere"?

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11 months

My dog believes in you.

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2 years

Just got an acceptance from one of my all-time favorite journals, @MoonParkReview . A definite cure for the Sunday scaries.

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6 months

What would a Submittable-themed restaurant have on its menu? Rejection tater tots? In-progress burgers?

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1 year

Have a new flash in @MoonParkReview 's summer issue about Seinfeld, reality, and what it means to be an extra. Check it out and then read all the other amazing writers in the issue. Link to the story:

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5 months

Made some lemon macarons. 🍥

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11 months

If I were running a journal, this is what the acceptances would look like.

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8 months

Just had to explain to everyone in the office how awesome @hexliterary is after shouting sweet when I received an acceptance from them for my evil twin story.

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2 years

Checked Submittable. Submittable told me to go outside.

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3 months

Kind of a difficult mental health day. Time to lie in bed and eat gummy bears.

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7 months

Made a new friend this morning.

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9 months

Had to spend about five minutes explaining to my in-laws what a @TBQuarterly was when this arrived. Can't wait to wear it to my next formal event.

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8 months

Reunited 🐕

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23 days

The final product. My take on the French apple cake. 🥮 🍎

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6 months

Got my @MoonCityReview contributor copy today. I'm excited to be in this issue with so many excellent writers. 🌙

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2 years

I have a new piece in @havehadhavehad about nostalgia and why I want to be 1990s @ConanOBrien . Check it out.

Why I Want to be 1990s Conan O’Brien by Will Musgrove

I want to be 1990s Conan O’Brien because late-night talk shows record in the afternoon and I like to sleep in. I want to be 1990s Conan O’Brien because he hosted Late Night then. The later time slot...

www.havehashad.com

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1 year

I have a new flash in the @penn_review about self-help space aliens, ufos, and good and bad times. Check it out. 👽 👽 👽 Story:

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10 months

Like crows, a group of literary rejections is called a murder.

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1 year

Have a couple of flash pieces in @xraylitmag today about fast-food restaurants and LARPing. Check them out. 🍔

THE FAST-FOOD REBELLION and THE LARPER by Will Musgrove

On break, he spoke to us through the order box. The sun warming our necks, we tossed French fries to seagulls and smelled the electric static on his breath.

xraylitmag.com

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