Constellary Tales has accepted my short story, A Scent of Roses.
This story has been through many name changes. It started out as The Scent of a Dead Rose. (It actually was inspired by the intense perfume of a bouquet of dying roses in my room.) Then I changed it to A Duty of Grief, which better represented the story as I’d written it. Finally, I submitted it as A Haunting Scent of Grief... and Constellary Tales accepted it!
In the edits, they asked me to change the name to A Scent of Roses. They felt that the title I’d used gave away too much. I agreed, because why not?
I’m looking forward to seeing it published in Constellary Tales – soon.
Edited to Add (Feb 14, 2019): And here it is! A Scent of Roses
“But when his grandfather returned home, too late for the birth, he was furious.”
(Warning: It’s not a romantic story. The earlier title gets the mood of it better. Trigger warning for dead baby.)
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