5,000 Dead Pigs - The Last Three Days - Rejected

 But what happened to all the pork? No mention of it in 5,000 feral pigs were killed to save a California national park. Instead, an interesting story of reclaiming an endangered ecosystem.

I did the group therapy yesterday. The most outstanding thing about it was this complete loss of energy, I almost fell asleep.

Afterwards, I got groceries and caught the bus home. Then I did nothing. I decided to do nothing more challenging than watching videos about movies. I called it a day around 8:30.

Hopefully, last night let me reset myself and I can finally get things in some kind of order.

I spent Wednesday and Thursday revising "Road Tripping" for a contest. I made the deadline on Thursday. I worked both days until my eyes were blurry. I slept through two alarms on Wednesday. I think this is why I was so tired yesterday. I woke at about 1 AM on Friday morning and remembered I had forgotten the pagination. Well, we know what will happen - another rejection, but this time for being a goon.

Speaking of rejections, "Love Stinks" did not meet up to Unleashed Lit's Work in Progress contest.

Dear Writer,

Thank you for submitting to the Unleash Press 2024 WIP Prize. We have the privilege of reading many remarkable works. Unfortunately, your manuscript was not selected to move forward to the finalist stage, but please know this is not a reflection of quality. Our team is selecting manuscripts based on many factors, including how we can best support the author.

We will surely see your project on bookshelves soon, and please know we are cheering you on. We plan to offer this contest again next year, with different categories for genres. In the meantime, please check out our lit journal and consider submitting.

Unleash Lit publishes short prose, poetry, photography, and art. Our mission is to support authentic storytellers across all mediums. Please adhere closely to the guidelines.

Best wishes,

Unleash Press team

And KH and MW will not even look at it! I am getting doubts....

Crime in Muncie, desperate days: Police: Muncie man bolted from sex shop with stolen ‘stripper pole’.

Cathcing up on my email - Love historical crime fiction? This sensual novel will grip you.

Low wages, child care availability push women out of Indiana’s workforce, Ball State study says will be get more attention later, I think. This is what we get from Republican government. Like Warren Zevon said, let's pauperize the lot.

Issie 13 of The Drift is out:

• Erik Baker on protesting and policing at the modern university 
• Simon Leser on the seemingly endless quest to translate Proust
• Melvin Backman on Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations and novels of the black resort town
• Sam Worley on Stop Cop City and the way Atlanta has historically absorbed protest into its own mythology
• Lily Scherlis on the politics of DBT
• Shaan Sachdev on how death toll debates warp our conversations about war
• Frances Lindemann on memoirists who overidentify with women writers of the past
• Fiction by Diana Kole, Hannah Kingsley-Ma, and Gideon Jacobs
• Poetry by Jen Frantz, Michael Bazzett, Ashley D. Escobar, and Talin Tahajian 
• Dispatches on borders and the nation-state from Julian Brave NoiseCat, Sophie Pinkham, Dur e Aziz Amna, Jack Herrera, Grace Blakeley, Cara Giaimo, Zachariah Mampilly, Ian Volner, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
• An interview with Rachel Kushner about her forthcoming novel, Creation Lake, Gaza and the West Bank, the political power of fiction, and whether younger generations will save us
• Extremely abbreviated reviews of technicolor marionettes, a stunted corporate avatar, unregenerate pitchmen and swindlers, lost women, and more

Its Mentions section is a  hoot, and I learned something new about John EDenver's "Country Roads"/

The same for  Granta 168: Significant Other, and the summer edition of the The Colored Lens: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9GLX5M8/ .

Ani DeFranco has a new album.

I should probably cook up some breakfast, other than Coke Zero and Lucky Strikes.

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