"In the Quiet of Morning"
I love a challenge. Give me a topic and a word limit and my mind start reeling. To write within the confines of 250 words – as in this case – and to hit the mark dead on fills me with schpilcus, man . What doesn’t thrill me is responding to the submission challenge (an April 4 th deadline) and seeing the listing repeated, each time with a new deadline (and of course more reading fees) until this morning when they (and no, I’m not naming the magazine) passed on the story – with a note encouraging me to submit more – no, I think I’m good thanks. But the good news is, now, I get to post it here – so find a spare 250 seconds and take a gander at a few words. Enjoy. “In the Quiet of Morning” by James Patrick Lockett