Pretty much every author out there will have The Pursuit of Lust 4 (2024)a rejection story or two.

Not many will have ones quite as dramatic as the tale author Mark Leidner shared on Twitter this week, though.

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Here it is, in all its ridiculous glory:

Understandably, people had some questions.

By this point, plenty of people were a tad sceptical.

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Others, meanwhile, were simply happy to sit back and enjoy the story -- made up or not.

Ultimately, though, the author eventually returned to Twitter to reveal the answer.

Yep: as you probably guessed by now the whole thing is made up, likely timed to promote Leidner's short story collection Under the Sea.

Hey -- it was still a wild ride while it lasted though, right?

Seems like the best way to promote your stories these days might well be with yet another story.

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