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Story: Little Chef

Mag: flashquake

Editorial comment:

Thank you for your interest in flashquake. Our decisions were difficult, but we have decided not to use your submission(s). We have included below our editors' comments on your work; we hope you find them useful. Please note that we are closed to submissions until December 1, when our Spring issue reading period opens.

Alan Beard

fiction

Little Chef

Editor 5 Vote: No

Ed. 5 Comments: I couldn't sympathize with any of the

characters and the final line seemed a little too pat for the story, as if the whole story had been written just to deliver that one line.

Editor 6 Vote: No

Ed. 6 Comments We've seen a thousand variations on this

theme, and while this one is well written, it's not far different.

My comment:

bollocks. I don't normally get depressed but this week the three rejections seem to have really hurt. I want to go and lie down somewhere and emerge a new shiny person, or better still for one or two stories to be accepted. That would cheer me up.