I'm cheap, but I'm not THAT cheap

From : uveditor@undergroundvoices.com
Sent : Thursday, January 1, 2004 2:30 PM
To : lucinda_michele@hotmail.com
Subject : submission request

Dear Michele:

We stumbled across your blogspot some time back and like the journal
entries. Currently, we are putting together a literary e-zine called
Underground Voices (www.undergroundvoices.com). The style is hard, edgy
and focuses on work that is both autobiographical and realistic.
The webpage is up. You can glance at it and get a feel for what we're
looking for and the kind of work we're interested in. Note that no
contributor's work is up yet as we are still sifting through submissions
and such.

We would welcome your contributions: prose, a journal entry say...

For features and articles we pay $5 (I know, not much) and articles over
3000 words, we pay $10.00. Please let us know if you are interested.

Sincerely,
Underground Voices



Dear Underground Voices,

Your interest is real sweet. Really. Thank you.

I'm currently getting a hundred dollars for every thousand words, though, at the Los Angeles Alternative Press and Coagula Art Journal. So I really feel you should offer more that ten dollars.

I really can't go lower than, say, twenty.

Broke and sincerely yours,
-michele.