“Dear Sir, I
received your rejection letter today and….”
THE LETTERS’ ARRIVIAL
©2003 by Mae Ondracek
I didn’t like the rejection letter I
received in the mail this morning and I’m hopping mad about it. I shall just sit right down and let them know
what I think about them rejecting my story.
It fit their magazine perfectly and it really was a great story.
Now, let me
see, how should I start this thing?
Oh! I’m so angry I don’t even
know how to begin. Now, let me see:
Deadwood
Bros.
Dear Sir,
I received
your rejection letter today and I’m hopping mad about getting it. My story, “The Long Dead Winter” was a
perfect story to include in your magazine and you send me a rejection letter
instead.
Why? You people, why?
It was a great
story about some people who had stocked their shelves before winter and how
there was so much snow that they couldn’t get out for five months and no one
could get to their place. In March they
were found dead in their home. Well, you
know the rest of the story.
Now, I cannot
see why you didn’t buy the story for publication in your magazine.
It would have
fit in your magazine so nicely and I am sending it back to you, so you can
reassess it for inclusion in a future issue.
Please read
the whole story this time and I’ll be expecting a check for it in the very near
future.
Sincerely,
Mr. John Doeing
Rt. 1