August 2025 – Rejection Letters
1 post published by MMKaufman during August 2025| Rejection Letters
Every time I see a typewriter, something in me shifts. Nothing dramatic. Just enough to make the room feel off-balance. I own three typewriters. Two of them work. The third, my Royal Remington, cam…| Rejection Letters
“Why Don’t You Write About [ ]?” Because it’s all blurry or gone Because I never went to [ ] meetings or [ ] meetings Because I have trouble with the word recovery Because when [ …| Rejection Letters
Old Woman cut the girls’ hair every month and gathered up the dead fluff to make pillows. There was plenty of fabric left, rolls of stars, stripes, polka dots. “We’ll run ou…| Rejection Letters
Every garage door in Ohio is open.And all the UPS drivers look ready to stripfor a bachelorette party. My daughter chases taxidermied rabbitsin the grass lot next door. The municipal worker in her neon vestsells […]| Rejection Letters
-bag-pod-too long since-running through lower wacker-muggsy bogues-guaranteed rate field-(g-spot for short)-lou malnati-oh don’t go yet-aperitif-psilocybin-hey hot dog-personal injury lawyer-love youse *** Romy Rhoads Ewing is a writer and photographer from Sacramento, California. Her work has […]| Rejection Letters
A gun floats up to heaven because it died. Shot to death, a tragedy. Turns out there’s a Gun Heaven, which is actually real heaven because guns just made up Human Heaven to make humans […]| Rejection Letters
Dead things were appearing on Kent’s windowsill. The first few days it was two dead bugs, or three. He noticed them when he turned on his bedside lamp against the predawn darkness. He squinted at t…| Rejection Letters
is caring something we can choose to do more of? setting aside what seems to be the literal no is there a pathway to follow? […]| Rejection Letters
My birth mom can’t meet me at the airport, but if I Uber to Bank of America she’ll be out front in a puffy winter coat. The crocuses are open. I only recognize her eyes—same as mine. I …| Rejection Letters
My buddy, DT, texts me and our other buddy, Kevin, that he has an idea. I have an idea, he texts. I like ideas. I stare at the message. I stare at my phone. Either […]| Rejection Letters
