I Get My First Rejection

 This came this morning from Flying Island Literary Journal:

Dear Samuel Hasler,

Thank you for sending us "Colonel Tom". We appreciate the chance to read it but we won't be able to publish it at this time. We hope you will submit other works. Thanks for supporting the Indiana Writers Center.

Thanks again.

Sincerely,

David Hassler

Flying Island Literary Journal

And there is my first rejection. Keep plugging along is the next step.