Made it past the first cut on the Penumbra submission

Received an email this morning to say that my short story submission to Penumbra had been passed on for the next round for consideration, and that it would be a while before I heard anything further. (They do multiple passes on submissions as they start to firm up the story line-up for the issue.) So at least it was considered a good enough match for what they want to be retained for further consideration. :-)

Rats

Just seen a revised version of the call for subs for one of the markets I submitted to last month -- it now specifies first person (which I'm fairly sure it didn't before), and the piece I submitted was third person. It was borderline anyway, with being slapstick sex comedy as much as anything, but that probably rules it right out.

I do have a first person short of the right length lying around, but that fails on the requirement to have noticeable erotic content within the first few paragraphs. :-)