Well, I'm officially 'published' on the Associated Contents site and Was My Face Red! when that motorcycle just rode off!!!! 
You can click the link to go there and read it for yourself. A true experience that happened YEARS and years and years ago, but which the family still gets a laugh at sharing with 'newcomers' to the clan!
My articles at Helium are upwards to 60...some still need views, the pennies in my penny jar there are getting lonely. Click here to See what I've written lately!
I also received my first official REJECTION letter from a magazine this week, but hey, I'm sending the same story elsewhere and it just may find a 'home' yet....LOL.
Such is the life of a freelance writer...wanna be fiction writer!
GOOD, bad or ugly it all goes out and settles somewhere.
Write, write, write some more and if all else fails....BLOG IT!!!
Be Blessed!