It's official!!

I just got my first rejection letter - woohoo! Makes me feel like a real writer!Ok, I guess I had submitted a couple of things before and gotten rejected, but this is the first time since I've really been writing seriously.The story was a short short I had submitted for the Glimmer Train writing competition for short shorts. I wrote it for a class with Brian Leung on compact fiction at the IU Writers' Conference last year. It wasn't like anything else I had ever written before, and he seemed to like it.Now, I need to start thinking of other places to send it, or maybe pull it out again to see if it could use some tweaks. I haven't done much research and am really not sure where the best places to send it are, but I guess that will be a project for this week. I don't think it would really fit in any science fiction/fantasy periodicals though there is a certain amount of what you might call magical realism involved.Just for fun, here is the first paragraph:-----When I first met my lover, I had hailed him from a distance because the name he was using – Siegfried - intrigued me. We talked for a while, and I pulled out a red clown nose and put it on him. He laughed and acted appropriately clownish.----It really does feel sort of fun to get a real rejection letter. I suppose it will feel less so after the 100th or so...In other news, my cat Athena (on my lap right now) has started vomiting up small bits of liquid again - not a good sign. :(