I’ve had a story out a venue for 35 days, now. The magazine reports on the average of 36 days.  They have an edition coming out on February first. As Jim’s mother used to say, “I am walking on thin eggs”.

This story is one that I wrote 5 years ago and only submitted a couple of times, both with very negative reactions. It was about a robot detective. I wrote five or six stories about this detective, but the only one that I sold was the one where I rewrote it and made him a human. I decided that a robot detective was a bad idea and trunked the stories.

I found the story recently and decided that it wasn’t that bad at all so I gave it a polish and sent it out. It is written in a 1940s hard boiled detective style and the hook is that the detective reacts emotionally to the murder and mayhem in the story, but doesn’t show it. The story turns into a private view into a cybernetic psyche. I still don’t think that it is an easy sell, after all it has no vampires or zombies.