The online literary review BlazeVOX20 published my short story Club 12-21 in its 20th anniversary issue. This is the fourth consecutive issue of BlazeVOX that I’ve been published in, which is pretty fricking awesome. Club 12-21 was written in December of 2018 and first submitted for publication in June of 2019. It was rejected eleven times before being accepted for publication by BlazeVOX in July of 2020.
Sometimes you write a story that you think isn’t that good, until somebody else declares they love it and it gets published. This story is not an example of that phenomenon. I thought this was a good story when I wrote it, and most of the rejections for it were encouraging, with editors saying they liked it but it just didn’t fit in with the issue they were working on. This was a story I knew would eventually get published from the beginning, and I’m so very happy to be able to share it with you now.
www.shawnwcampbell.com/club-1221
If you enjoyed this story, check out my newest short story collection, Stumptown.
