"We cannot bring you aboard at this time."
It sounds like an announcement in an airport departure lounge, but it's actually from an email turning me down for a writing job.
(At first, I took it more dramatically and had a picture of myself, on a makeshift raft, getting turned away from a passing ship.)
Yes, I took a risk, and it could have turned out a lot worse. There was a guy who got his first submission to some syndicate mailed back unopened, with a note on the envelope: "I told you to stop sending us your ****!"
Still . . .
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