New Work Out: Three Doors
“Three Doors” is a small piece, 1,321 words, included in an anthology put out by The Writers’ Journal . I saw a call for submissions in Duotrope , an online platform that allows users to access lists of publishers and agents and offers a handy submission grid to help you keep track of submissions. I pay a subscription fee of about $100 a year for the service. I found the call under themed deadlines and the topic was doors Ages ago I wrote a novel. I think like most of us, we all have a shelved novel, a manuscript in the drawer. Not to say it’s unloved or terrible or the work of a novice, but something that might make an appearance later. We haven’t given up on it. That’s the story with “Three Doors.” It is an excerpt from a novel I shopped around and even had an agent for—to no avail. It’s the piece that got me into Breadloaf—again, ages ago. What goes around comes around—meaning, I don’t know, I had a thing in there about doors. Doors to my character, to Tally’s heart. Afte...