Delightful Dilemmas

This morning I received an email informing me that I have had another story accepted for publication in February.  This was such a shock after having an acceptance just a week ago today.  The story accepted today is the one I wrote on a lark at Hindman last year.  It has received many rejections, and I had decided that as soon as I heard back from this magazine I was going to completely rewrite the piece before submitting again.  I was so set on the rewriting, that I'm shocked to have had it accepted in it's original form.  However, this does lead me to my first delightful dilemma of the moment.  I have only one story out right now.  I'm not going to get any more acceptances if I don't have anything out there to be accepted.  I guess I need to get back to the writing.  So, here's a question... Which story should I work on tightening up? 

1. My slipstream short story with stream of conscious narrative and a Marilyn Monroe motif
2. The story I wrote about my grandmother which is funny but has a very weak ending
3. My story about nothing with great characters and even greater extended metaphors
4. My not quite prose, not quite poetry piece I started for a call for parenting submissions from a dark literary magazine I admire

Let me know what you think. 

As mentioned previously, I attended the Roanoke Regional Writer's Conference this weekend.  This has left me with what I consider to be a very good opportunity for my novel, if I finish it.  I have enough time to finish it to take advantage of this, but since I've not really worked on it since November, I need to go back and re-read everything I wrote.  This leads me to my second delightful dilemma.  I'm happy to announce after reading just a chapter and a half last night, that I still love my characters and am surprised at some of the things they do.  However, I see errors.  Little errors, big errors, errors that the editor in me doesn't want to let go.  I know that if I start the editing game now, I'll never finish the writing part.  I rightfully get to go back and read and am excited to do so.  I just fear it will get me off track.

For my third delightful dilemma, this evening I received my (signed no less) copy of Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict.  I am dying to just crawl in the bed and read until I fall asleep.  I want to devour this book whole, but I tend to use books against myself.  I use the reading as a procrastination for not doing my own writing (or grading).  Then afterwards I tend to compare my work to what I've read, and that generally doesn't go well.  I thought about using the book as a reward.  If I accomplish x, y, and z, then I can read until I fall asleep.  However, I've never tried to read and write at the same time before (not literally, you grammar police), and I wonder what effect the former would have on the latter.  I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have on that as well.