Story: I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope
Published in: Small Wonders [web]
Length: ~1K words
Brief synopsis:
How the story came to be: I wrote this during a flash fiction challenge, but not for the challenge. So I was being very flash fiction pilled at the time and I was taking a shower and the sentence “I once fell in love with a jackalope” came to me, so…that’s how it went! Which is why it’s structured the way it is. I kept coming back to that one sentence, and how it has that looking back upon the past stuff, so that’s how the voice has the specific “character” it does.
PUBLISHING THE STORY
Relative Confidence Level Before Submitting: 8? I thought it was very good and very “literary” in a way that mainstream places would like it
Rejections before finding a home: 25
The eventual home: Small Wondders. It’s the biggest place one of my flash pieces have gotten picked up, which is very awesome!!!
