Origins: “Because this is an ongoing investigation, we cannot comment on the matter at this time.”
Number of Drafts: 10. Plus extensive consultation with the “Resident Medievalist.”
Published in: Orca, A Literary Journal (forthcoming)
Number of rejections: 1.
Music: Death Cab for Cutie, “Photobooth”
“We Laugh Indoors”
The Causey Way, “Word Problems”
The Cure, “Shiver and Shake”
The Magnetic Fields, “Underwear”
Modest Mouse, “Convenient Parking”
Too Much Joy, “That’s a Lie”
R. Renee Branca 