I'm not going to lie.  Being creative is oftentimes exhaustive.  I mean, take my story "Marmalade" for instance.  I once had a guy say "clearly she doesn't plan to ever publish that, she just wrote it for fun."  Since then, it's been a personal vendetta to kick butt and get that story published.  I've never seen the guy before.  I don't remember his name.  I'll probably never see him again.  But I will get that story into a magazine if it kills me.  

And it just might.

Right now, it's January 1...
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