Great Story But

Well, it didn’t take them another nine months, but nine months in total. Prisoner of war spent five months in the ‘Recommended folder‘ at Dark Wisdom before the editors rejected it. The rejection message was nice enough:

Thank you for submitting “Prisoner of War” to Dark Wisdom. The story was very good but competition for the limited space in the magazine is quite fierce, so unfortunately we must pass on it. Thank you for taking the time to submit, and please consider doing so again in the future.

Still, I’m getting sick and tired of the ‘great story but‘ brand of rejection letters. If the stories are so great, buy them already!