I spent a part of today dealing with the stories that have come back in, rejected and returned, through the revolving door of my fiction-writing career. Writing this stuff is hard work, but gripping. Trying to get this stuff published is punishing.

And then this cartoon floats in over the transom. It’s not fair to all those hard-working agents and editors out there who do have to slog through a lot of works not ready for publication (we’re not talking about my stories here, of course) — but we rejected writers need a good laugh sometimes to keep us going.