Originally posted on Finding Boddie in January, just after I got the announcement.

Well, not really. I got serious about submissions when I was 17 and then it grossly tapered off not long after that. I submitted half-assedly while I was in school, sending a piece or two into the designated literary magazines for the colleges I attended (yes, I attended multiple colleges, no, I only have one degree and no, I’m not a delinquent, I changed schools of my own accord, for the most part) but it wasn’t until this past November that I got really serious about submissions again and started sending stuff out. So, really, in total, I spent about a year submitting, if you add together time and effort. So I do things at my leisure. Nothing wrong with that.

Well, back in November I sent out my first humor piece I had ever written and one went to the Rosalie Fleming Memorial Humor Prize in the Soul-Making Contest. I had submitted another piece after that as well (sent it out just before the deadline, too) and had half-heartedly forgotten about it until last week.

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