after the hullabaloo of being one of the winners of The Rock Writer's Group Short-Story Competition last January, i was prepared to go back to my quiet life as an unemployed immigrant bride (HA! and also i've already found work since then and loving it!). but an unexpected email from the local paper apparently changed my fate again. so much for a quiet life. They wanted to publish my story (woohoo!). in a small nation of only 30,000 people and so far away from home, to me, this is quite a feat. where i come from, i was a fledgling wanna-be writer in a sea of fledgling wanna-be writers sharing 7,100 islands. so i was quite proud when they said they wanted to publish my story.
what they didnt tell me though was WHEN it will be published! (so much for small-town living) since i am too stingy to buy the local paper, i just read them in the grocery store right next to our building (yes, in a minute or less!). i had to do this for some time as they obviously can't be bothered with replying to my email! at some point, i gave up and as luck would have it , a friend came across it and told me it was published a few weeks back. SOOO off i go to the paper's office and bought said paper with said story :)
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