Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

I'm glad to report (or sorry to report, as the case may be) that Gordon Van Gelder's operation at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is still the Quickest Draw In The West, when it comes to getting the rejection slips out. From the time I dropped the thing in the corner mailbox to the time my SASE appeared in my home mailbox, six days elapsed. Wow. Time to print the thing out and send it someplace else. (On a related writing note, another short story of mine that's been stalled-in-progress may have cleared up this morning with the realization that I bungled the story's beginning. Hopefully that will turn out to be the answer; I've been nursing this particular idea for a while but it's proven stubbornly difficult to get onto paper.)