“To Go Into the Spirit World and Return Alive”
The story archetype that will guide every story you write here, and anywhere else.

I pitched a story to a magazine editor yesterday that got a hard no. It surprised me, the swiftness of his response. I thought the general-interest magazine might go for the rag-to-riches story of an immigrant and refugee who made his name refuting what every other business did and now, deep in…