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(This piece originally ran on Southern Humorists.com. Reposted by permission.) I started the day bouncing around my hotel room on one foot, so guests in the room beneath may have wondered if I'd packed a pogo stick. Jet-lagged and stumbling, I careened into the desk chair that stood between me and the coffee maker. As I hopped madly up and down, I yelled names, not very nice names, names I've privately called editors who've rejected my work. With tears rolling down my face, I plunked down ...

Lucia Paul's story, "The Tin Files," will appear in the upcoming Not Your Mother's Book On...Home Improvement. A humorous essayist from Minneapolis, she's the author of Bad Catholic Mothers: A Book of Revelations. ...