…I’m going to go ahead and “squee” over an email I got yesterday.
Apparently my short story “Thirty Nine” has received an “honorable mention” for the 3rd quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest.
<insert high-pitched ‘squee’ a la anime schoolgirl here>
Now, the story will not be published but I will be getting a shiny certificate in the mail and a mention on their blog.
Not a bad little ego boost. I’ve been in a writerly funk of late and this helps a bit.
I’ll be sure and post my certificate when I get it in my hot little hands.
Shedrick
Serial Distractions 
hip hip hurray fantastic news, congratulation from the both of us. keep up the good work, and keep us intrigued, what we want is to be able to read your story. so come on shed, spit it out to all of us who are waiting with baited breath (what ever that means). you know your fans here enjoy a good si-fi story, as only yuu can tell them
Thank you! I can’t post the story on the website because I’m still trying to sell it–and if I post it on the website it is counted as “previously published” and therefore harder to sell. I’ll have to bring you or send you a copy of the draft.
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