Just to show that I don't want to use this space to beat my drum when things go well, here's a note from the other side of the fence.

I got a rejection letter in the mail today, from a literary magazine for a short story I sent them in the hopes of getting into their annual issue. Hey, it was a nice note with a handwritten comment to please send them more stuff, and I fully intend to take them up on it. In the meantime, I'll drop this story into the mail and send it on its way to another market for which I think it might be suited.

Yes, indeedy, rejections can, do, and will continue to happen.

Such is one writer's life.