FYI …

… Three Stories Unlikely to Make it Beyond the Slush | Indiana Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

We receive somewhere between 3,500 and 4,000 fiction submissions each year, and I spend a good deal of my time digging through those submissions to separate the bad stories from the good-and-potentially-great stories. So I thought I’d offer some insight into how I decide which stories make it out of our slush pile and which are rejected quickly.