2020 Was My Year On Mt. Stupid

Last year was a big year for me. I got three acceptances and was published twice, albeit in small lit mags (one of them waited until January to publish the story). I’m not counting everything I did on Medium. I wrote twelve stories. TWELVE. That’s equivalent to one a month, although I think I did more than that in some months and less in others. I got fourteen rejections. Three of those were in the same day. For the same story. I got personal rejections from two magazines that I really love, and...