A goal of mine is to be published in one of my favorite literary magazines

The Sun.

I have submitted a dozen times and have been politely rejected.

That's part of what makes is worth it though, isn't it? The rejection makes the trying that more exciting. I don't always feel this way but I do believe it as truth; and I don't think on this enough. The competition and hustle - I'm not very good with it. But that's part of my struggle, it is what I will learn and work my way through, hopefully, to bloom on the other side.

Here is the work of my rejections: