I made my way through another set of lit mag submissions a few days ago, actually – while watching Mighty Ducks 2 with Jordi, inexplicably. At any rate, I had a nice list kept of what I submitted where so when I inevitably get picked up by one of these brilliant literary magazines who can see my genius through the thin veneer of my eloquent prose (kidding), I’d be able to let the rest that I’d simultaneously submitted to know that they hadn’t moved fast enough and were just out of luck until the next time I go throwing submissions around, and weren’t they sorry now (kidding again).
And then my computer’s powercord fritzed out on me, the whole thing crashed, and I’d never saved the notepad file. So dragging myself through the M-Z listings of Newpages I managed to figure out where I submitted (er, mostly), but not necessarily which piece got submitted to where. Folks, don’t be me. I’m an idiot. Keep better track of these things. Anyway added to my previous list are:
I feel like there were at least a couple more – Marginalia being one that sounds particularly familiar – but I have no way of being sure. From now on I fully intend to either save my files right away, or to have a hard copy of all of this stashed somewhere that I can’t accidentally lose because my computer is a piece of junk. Or maybe what I really need to do is just not let myself get so distracted by Gunner Stahl. Hmm…
Edit: Mostly for my own records, this afternoon I sent out another three; Fever to the first two and Chinook to the third:
