Wrinkled

A rejected story I submitted last February

Salutations reader,

Below is a story I wrote this past winter and submitted to my alma mater’s literary magazine, the MARQUETTE LITERARY REVIEW. Looking back at it I still see some shiny parts.

Where I failed, I think, is I was trying too hard to write something for someone else. I wanted to write something that would make me sound like Carver. But that’s…