This post might sound like an advertisement (which it partly is, of course, you don’t try to get published if you don’t want people to read your stuff) but I want to use this post to encourage other new writers.
It took a long time to find a home for this story and I thought about giving up on it when rejections started piling up in my inbox. I’m sure there are others who feel the same from time to time, but please continue to submit.
For those interested, here is the story: https://stateofmatter.in/fiction/milk/
There magazines that still publish stories? And thank you it taken about 10 years to do so. One I am writing now started as a sentence I wrote in 2006.