Come one and come all to read Ten-Hut, my latest short story which has just been published by the online literary review BlazeVOX19. This is quite an honor given that I’ve now had a story published in each of the past three issues of this fine review. I think it might be one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received as a writer. Ten-Hut is actually one of my newer stories, having been written in July of 2019. It is also one that got published fairly quickly. I first started submitting it in December of 2019 and after only six rejections it got picked up by BlazeVOX19 in April of this year. This is the fourth story of mine to be published so far this year.
Eleven months between writing and publishing is actually a pretty good turnaround in the short story biz. For instance, most of the stories that I’ve gotten published don’t reach the public eye until 3 to 5 years after they are written. The longest period I’ve had so far between writing a story and seeing it published has been six and a half years. Part of this is my tendency to let stories sit for awhile before editing them and starting the submissions process, but part of it too is the fact that this is a hobby that requires focusing on the long game. It can take awhile for you want to put a story out there, even longer to get it accepted, and even then you have to wait, sometimes a year, for it to be actually published. All I can say is, all of your support certainly makes the waiting worth it. I hope you enjoy Ten-Hut.