A short short story on rejection and perseverance: I received a short story rejection this week that really landed hard. Naturally, I felt a little a lot bummed. As I logged the response in my short stories submissions spreadsheet, though, my attention caught on the respectable number of green lines (acceptances) among the red (rejections). I don’t write a ton of short stories. In the past 10 or 12 years, I’ve logged 25 submissions. Of those, 8 have been accepted and published. 32%! Not bad. But when I looked closer, 7 of the stories in my spreadsheet had been submitted…