I completed the final revisions. I read through the story, aloud (easier to catch some awkward passages that way), and determined, considering the imminent deadline, that it was as good as it was going to get. I reviewed the submission guidelines, formatted the story appropriately, and logged into the site to submit my story. Before I went forward with the upload, I decided to look under "My Submissions" to see if I had ever sent anything to this journal before (I can never remember these things).
Oh, well hell. I had sent this same story in 2005. My knee-jerk reaction was to just forget about it and move on. Then I thought, "I'll submit it anyway." I retracted that thought, and here I am now. I don't regret the time I spent on the story this month. I had fun revisiting old work and making it new. I hope it will provide motivation to craft new pieces.
In the meantime, I'll take a leap and post a link to the story here. And while I really want to make excuses or qualifying statements about some choices I made for the story, I won't. I just...whatever.
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