The Jump

A short story (preceded by a brief note about the journey it has been on)

The Journey of “The Jump”

I was reading in bed at 3:45 AM on August 31^st when an email popped up on my phone. It was from the editor of a journal that, hours before, had published my short story, “The Jump,” about a queer writer who turns to lesbian sex work. “The Jump” had been easy to write but hard to publish, with countless tiered rejections asking f…