Short Story Status Update

With several short stories completed, it was time to return to the local writers workshop. This semester it was a small group of four, including the instructor and me. Two additional people were no shows, something I don't understand that. They're throwing their money away. It worked to my benefit as I was guaranteed to have my work read during each class. And the feedback from this group has been quite helpful.

Here are the results:

"The Recruiter" would appear to be unpublishable in its...