THE GREAT SILENCE

Yesterday I received a response to a query I'd sent an editor. It had been so many months that I'd forgotten I tried to contact her in the first place. My hunch is that my email landed in her Spam folder, and she'd just gotten around to going through those messages.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood (actually, I know I am), but from my current perspective, what's noteworthy isn't that she took a long time to respond. What's noteworthy is that she responded at all.

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