After a few months of steadfast submissions, I received an e-mail from an online literary magazine that said they would be “delighted” to include my short story in their next issue. My wife and I celebrated my first acceptance as if it was a Presidential nomination. And no sooner did I sit down in front of my e-mail than I got my second acceptance! As they say, when it rains it pours, and I stood face up in the storm that day, letting those two e-mails wash away my doubts about my credibility as a writer.