Another word baby says all the time is “yay!” And I would've given him an earful of it tonight if he hadn't already been asleep. See, yesterday I googled someone I went to MFA school with to see if he'd had anything new published, and I found a micro-fiction piece he wrote for Why Vandalism?, an online literary magazine.

“I could do that,” I thought. So I typed something up, refined it in the shower, and sent it off.

Tonight I got an e-mail from them:

Thanks for sending us 'Eight Fifty Six.' We thought it was a great piece and will gladly publish it in the July issue of Why Vandalism? (due out monday).
Thanks for contributing, we enjoyed reading it!

Yay! Yay yay yay!