Rejection Time

Nothing new for me, but my short story How Does Your Garden Grow was rejected by Dark Animus today :-(

I knew it probably wouldn't get in before I even sent it for a couple of reasons;

• The only genre the story fits in is Horror, but it is not really too horrific, and none too scary. More an old-style 30s or 40s horror, if anything. It was inspired by a Clark Ashton Smith story, but not similar in style.
• James, the Dark Animus editor, hates stories in Present Tense. I can understand this, some of them are attrocious, but this story doesn't seem to work any other way.

Anyway, back to the submission process for this one.