Scene: I receive, via email, lovely, confidence-boosting words about my brand new automaton story from the Editor-in-Chief of a pro magazine and react as follows in the privacy of my home office.
EiC: I really like your writing.
Me: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
EiC: Alas, I just purchased something very similar.
Me: Drats! If only I'd sent it off earlier instead of tinkering with it for so long! I might have pipped that other story at the post.
Me (after a moment): And what do you mean very similar? Surely I'm incredibly original?
Me (after another moment): I blame that movie Hugo. Automatons are probably the new vampires.
EiC: Please, do continue to send stories.
Me: Oh, all right, if you insist :)
N.B. This nice rejection was not one of the two pending pro mag possibilities that I'm still on tenterhooks over.
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