In October of 1981, I sent a short story titled “In the Kingdom of Eros” to Elinor Mavor of Amazing Stories, who rejected it three months later with a brief note scribbled on the back of the form reject below. The story, written in 1980, ended up collecting a total of 34 rejections before I retired it in 1991.

However …

“Eros and Agape Among the Asteroids,” a science fictional version of what started out a fantasy tale, was published in the anthology Once Upon A Galaxy in 2002.