The Woman in the Library

by Sulari Gentill

I received my tenth rejection letter for the opus yesterday. It feels like something which should be marked. Perhaps I shall buy a cake. This one said my writing was elegant but that they felt I was working in the wrong genre…which I suppose is an indirect way of saying they want my protagonist to be a vampire and the climax to involve an alien invasion…and not the kind with which our President seems preoccupied!

Words are put down in solitude; there is a strange privacy to those disclosures.

Murderer isn’t a job description, Freddie. It tends to be something you do on the side.”