You need to read this author's disastrous rejection story all the way to the end

Pretty much every author out there will have a rejection story or two. 

Not many will have ones quite as dramatic as the tale author Mark Leidner shared on Twitter this week, though.

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Here it is, in all its ridiculous glory:

I once rejected my own short story from a magazine I was guest editing. The magazine had a blind submission policy, and I didn't recognize the story as my own and forgot I'd submitted it months before I was asked to guest edit the issue

— mark leidner (@markleidner) August 16, 2018

Posting the screen shots made me feel confident in my writing and that I was smarter than the entitled fuckface who'd submitted the story. I then sent what I thought was an appropriately polite but harsh rejection only to receive the email myself and realize I wrote the story

— mark leidner (@markleidner) August 16, 2018 Read more...

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