The application form is seventy-two pages long, and they require nine copies. These people want to know everything. They also want to make sure you aren't doing this as a joke.

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I am not the sort of person who habitually writes second-person present-tense stories about filling out application forms; in fact, most of my fiction is pretty mainstream as far as fantasy goes. So when I did write a second-person present-tense story about filling out an application form, my first thought upon its completion was "where the hell am I going to sell this?" The answer, I'm pleased to say, is Electric Velocipede. "Selection" was published in issue #13, in November 2007.