My story "Scars" originally appeared in the online magazine Blue Murder. It's in the ebook collection Scars and Candy from Crossroad Press. I read a few flash stories from that collection the other day at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Focus Facebook group and was reminded.
I'm not sure the issue number any longer, and shifts from one computer to the other over the years have lost any contributor's e-copy I had.
It's a good lesson on the need to keep good records, I guess.
The story was first submitted to the Hot Blood series, and it resulted in a freak-out rejection from Michael Garrett, I believe, and not Jeff Gelb, over something implied but not implicitly stated in the story.
It went to some other mag of the time where it chilled one editor but not the second reader it seemed, who took it in better stride than the HB editors at least.
I don't recall Blue Murder batting an eye. Shows what a crapshoot the whole submission process is, I guess.
Wish I still had a copy of the original. I found a few others around on Planet PDF and discovered several friends in the contents pages, but haven't run across myself.
Maybe it'll turn up. At least the story's preserved in Scars.
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