Dear Disappointing Specimen of a Human,1
Your incompetence astounds us. In fact, you provided quite a nice laugh in the office. After we read your manuscript with insurmountable disgust, (if the word "script" should even be associated with a piece of excrement as rare as this) I made several copies of the mess and posted them around the workplace. Your momentous failings have increased morale greatly here.2
Thank you for being so devastatingly horrible; it was quite refreshing. Everyone needs a moment like that of which you have provided, a moment to think, "At least I haven't fallen that low. I don't think I could fall that low if I dug straight down for the rest of my life. What a nice thought! I think I'll have a cup of joe."3
Sincerely
The Rejection Agency
Author notes
Letter
A contest entry
- The Best Rejection Ever by Bitter Irony.
225 points, ended December 11, 2007, 8 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - Gimme Funny Stories! by Peachy.
170 points, ended January 23, 2008, 11 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - Make Me Laugh! by Cheerful-Panda.
450 points, ended March 24, 2008, 15 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - Great Writing Contest - Great Comments by x-sweet-sunshine-x.
175 points, ended April 1, 2008, 32 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - I am a writer! by Phoenix Orion.
600 points, ended March 29, 2008, 13 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - For The Little Ones ( For Ages 16 and Under ) by Miss Hanako Cullen.
300 points, ended April 4, 2008, 21 entries
Honorable mention
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - Refridgerate Your Foodstamps!!! by happy go lucky13.
550 points, ended May 1, 2008, 9 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - Make me laugh, make me cry, make me feel something! by LittleMissChrissie.
450 points, ended October 24, 2008, 75 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - Realistic fiction by Forgotten Anomaly.
1050 points, ended December 23, 2008, 36 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - What is your L Word? by KeepDriving.
230 points, ended January 28, 16 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest - Funny and Random by Thorn-on-the-Rose.
175 points, ended July 22, 127 entries
• next story in this contest, remove from contest
What do you think?
Comments
1 - 15 of 15
-
Thanks for entering the contest! I liked how you took the "rejection letter" thing a step further and got inside of the writer of the letter's head... if that makes sense. Good luck in the contest!
-Jenny -
I didn't find this quite as funny as most but I also have a consuming fear of regection and could just imagaine someone thinking this as they read one of my peices. I've never been able to get the curouge to send out one of my peices for publication for this reason exactly. A well writen peice though. Thank you for entering and good luck.
-
nicee
-
This was a good track to the "Rejection Letter" type. Though I didn't think it was very funny, but then again I'm not in the best of moods at the moment. I liked the wording and use of phrases in this letter.
I'm sure were I happier, this would indeed be very funny. : )
Great Job!

-
This was funny. I liked it. Alot. In fact it is one of the few in the contest that I am sure I will use if I follow through with my forensics piece.
Thanks for entering. -
This is really good! It's very funny. I love the ending. It is also very well proofread, because I could find no grammar or spelling mistakes! I would like to thank you for entering, and say good luck and keep writing!
-
hahaha good luck
!

-
That made me giggle, excellent choice of words!
Good Luck! -
PS
If you don't find this funny...try reading it out loud with a British accent
-
Hilarious
Ok so I had to go read more of your stuff, and this had me laughing from the beginning. I must use this sometime - I literally have to reject things all day long and sometimes I despair of ever seeing anything done right.
-
Lol I thought this was hilarious but ugh, I hate being rejected ><'
-
Ii must be true...somewhere
I liked the use of descriptive language. Nothing better than an acidic adjective to wound someone! You did have one run-on sentence that detracted somewhat, from an otherwise funny piece. It was the second sentence of the second paragraph. I see it was commented on by Bitter Irony except that it was also wrong. The first of the two examples was the best but drop the "Us." It is understood and therefor becomes redundant. The second ends using a preposition; no es correcto!
Keep burning out more product. You already know I think you are talented.
beginning: 5, language: 3, plot: 4, ending: 5, dialog: 4, characters: 5.
-
Haha, are their really rejection agency? if so, i know where I want to work!!! Hehe, anyways. . . I liked this one a lot. It made me life in my head, just not outloud. It was still very funny, and I liked how this somehow could be a bit true. I would like to see this happen to someone in real life. Gosh, im terrible. Good peice, good grammar, good spelling, and i really liked it! keep it up. :]]
KEEP WRITING!!!
-Melli
-
this is really funny. i loved it. its so much better than those boring letters you really get in the mail. this was fantastic. caylierose
-
Brilliant! You had me hooked from the opening. "Dear Disappointing Specimen of a Human..." Sometimes I wish I could address people as such! :-)
I did catch one grammar error: "Everyone needs a moment like that which you've provided us with" should be "Everyone needs a moment like that which you've provided us" or "Everyone needs a moment like that you've provided us with."
Otherwise, it was excellent. Hilariously funny--I actually began laughing out loud at the end, something I haven't done for a while! Great job!
Thanks for entering the contest, and good luck!
~Bitter Irony
1 - 15 of 15















