We’ve got this serial submitter at F&SF who sends in three or more stories every week, none of them very good. Typically, I wouldn’t mention something like this on my blog, lest some poor writer stumble across mention of it and think, "Oh, he must mean me!" and then feel bad. In this case, I feel safe discussing the case, since I’m fairly certain this writer doesn’t have a computer–all of his manuscripts are hand-written. (And, you know, if he does have a computer and he’s still submitting hand-written manuscripts? Then screw him–I don’t care if he feels bad if he stumbles across this.)

This week, Gordon joked that we should publish a chapbook of this guy’s stories, since he’s so prolific. But even if he had never submitted anything previously, we had enough of his work to publish a chapbook from that day’s batch of mail alone–we got FIVE separate submissions from him, all on the same day.

But hey, at least he sends each manuscript separately (rather than five in one envelope) and includes separate SASEs for each story (and always has the appropriate amount of postage on the envelopes). At least he’s doing something right.