Note the time of the submission and the time of rejection! If this rejection were a car accident, I'd have crippling whiplash due to the velocities involved! Thanks to new developments in publishing technologies (such as the Internut and e-mail) it is now possible to get rejected within minutes of your submission! That's right authors! No more waiting for months for rejection, now you can receive dissatisfaction on demand!! Why wait weeks for your self-esteem to receive a crushing blow when you can get it right now?! As you're a writer, you need to suffer for your craft...and with all this instantaneous suffering, think off all the great writing you'll do! Then use that to increase your rejections! Yes, even YOU can do it!

Actually, rumor has it that certain people in the know are working on a new technological publishing revolution that will actually allow you to get rejected even before you submit! Start writing a story and, if you type the wrong word -REJECTED!!! Think of all the time you'll save! In fact, you'll receive rejections as soon as you even start thinking of an unacceptable story idea! I could update this page several times a day! Think of all the acceptable writing I could do instead of wasting my time trying to do something different! I'd be rich!

My Rebuttal: Some of you may note the irony of this publication's name. Yes, that's right, Happy. It's ironic because getting rejected within moments (particularly by a publication named Happy) tends to make one un-happy. Of course, I'm not sure I really want to bother publishing my work in a periodical edited by a man who can't even bother to capitalize the name of his publication...or sign his name to his emails. Nor could he be bothered to quote my original message! And, Mr. Nameless editor, if Happy doesn't accept e-mail submissions, then why does the 2003 edition of Writer's Market say that you do. Hunh? Did they just make that up? Are you calling the Writer's Market liars? eh? I think that in the future you - REJECTED!!!!