Open City rejected me, too. I'll get the letter up soon. In the meantime, buy their magazine. It really is good. I've got a subscription.

At the moment, I have misplaced my rejection letters from Analecta, the literary magazine of the University of Texas at Austin. They rejected my material two years in a row, including a rejection of the story "Graveyard."

I do, however, have this, my rejection letter from Story magazine, for "Blindness," from May 1999. And my personal favorite is this, from Seventeen, also for "Blindness," from October 1999. (The note on the bottom looks like it may actually be hand-written.)