My Superpower

Thursday night, with little or no fanfare, I received word that one of my short stories, My Superpower, had been accepted for publication by The Tiny Globule. And not only had it been accepted, it was already published.

This is the fourth story I’ve had accepted for publication, but the first one actually published. It was a strange feeling.

First of all, it was strange to actually see a story I had written posted out on someone else’s web site. That meant that someone else enjoyed my story enough to go to the trouble of posting it (and having converted material to web content, that’s a lot of work). And it was all without warning. There was no email first announcing the acceptance of the story, or contracts to sign releasing the First Electronic Publication Rights, or anything. It just happened.

I guess I somehow expected my first publication to be heralded by the blare of trumpets, a release party, champagne, caviar, and much well-wishing and congratulatory slapping of my back.

None of that occurred. What did occur, it being Thursday night, was that I got to clean out the cat litter boxes and take out the trash in preparation for it to be picked up early Friday morning. On top of that, I realized that we were out of cat litter so I had to make a quick run to the store to pick up more at nine o’clock at night.

As I was checking out with my cat litter, I wondered to myself if the cashier had any idea that she was dealing with a published author, and then I wondered, maybe she was one too.

~Doug