Rejections - Why Send on the Weekend?

 Three more rejections for "Passerby" came in this weekend:

Thank you for submitting to Pleiades. Although we appreciate your interest in the journal, we are unable to publish your work at this time. Nonetheless, we thank you for thinking of us, and we wish you the best of luck placing your work elsewhere.

Sincerely,

The Editors
Pleiades

2022-08-27 13:37:41 (GMT -5:00)

and

Dear Samuel Hasler,

Thank you for sharing your work with us. We have decided to decline this particular Fiction submission. Unfortunately, we receive many fine works that do not quite fit with the next issue of the magazine. We do appreciate your interest in contributing to Storm Cellar.

Sincerely,

The Editors

Storm Cellar

http://stormcellar.org

I need to look and see how many more remain before I revise "Passerby" to be less of a novel's chapter and more of a standalone piece. 

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