Dear Editors

Dear Fiction Editor(s),

Please find attached my scintillating short story, “Most Poignant Title Ever,” of about 4,000 words, or whatever your ideal story length is.  My main character, a flawed but sympathetic scientist, makes the discovery of her lifetime when, by deducing her actual parentage, she grows a microbe under her fingernail that will cure the Claz’kon Plague, but not before her little sister succumbs to the disease.  Did I mention it was sad but also beautiful?  You will probably cry.

I recently graduated with a M.A. in Creative Writing, for which I wrote a thesis that astounded and moved my professors so much that one of them won the Worldwide Book Award, one of them retired to raise goats, and one of them has been institutionalized.  My previous professional publications include none, but if you publish my story, I’ll have something to say here next time, won’t I?

This story is a simultaneous submission because I can’t wait ten weeks each times ten magazines for someone to decide to buy it.  Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best,

~K

P.S. Today my WORD COUNT for my novel-in-progress is 32,430.  Admit it.  That impresses you a little bit.