That short story I've been sitting on since spring of '08 has been shipped out to Glimmertrain.

Now, I await the rejection notice.

One, because "literary fiction" is a weird little genre and often fits an editor's discretion and two, because Glimmertrain is notoriously difficult to get published in. I started at the top. I expect rejection.

But at least it's out there. It does no good sitting on my flash drive, collecting virtual dust.

This is the first big thing I've submitted in several years.

I digress. My next step is looking into other possible markets for said short story.

And continuing to delve into flash fiction markets for those pieces I've been developing over the last 9 months.

I've kicked around, in my head, the idea of talking to my creative cohort (who worked in conjunction with me; we each created our own set of work--my short fiction, her art on 3x5 canvas--and then shipped them to each other so we could build more work off of one another's creativity) about possibly self-publishing these things in a little book.

That idea may have some merit... But it needs research.