The Eight Universal Unpublished Story Submission Plots in GIF Form

There’s a great post on The Weeklings entitled “How Not to Get Published,” in which writer Sean Beaudoin outlines 8 slush story types, instantly recognizable to every editor at every literary magazine ever.  

1. Mom’s Very Sick

2. Bar Fight

3. Social Outcast Imparts Jesus-y Lesson to The Immoral

4. The Affair

5. Vampire, Alien, Cannibal, Were-trout, Ghost

6. What Wise Elderly Dude Thinks About His Grandchildren, Politics, And Baseball, Mostly After Naps

7. Dad Felt Suzie Up

8. The Spoonful Of Dada