Okay, basically, I've written a short story that I'm hoping to try and publish, only I'm not sure what genre it would be. The basic story idea is someone's been looking for the fountain of youth for a long time, and finally he's discovered where it is. So he takes his wife and they go after it, and the ending shows them finding it, and then what happens right after. The events allow for a good deal of character development along the way, too, and it's set in the modern 'real world' (though it does have that 'what if' aspect to it). That's a really bad summary, but I think it gets enough across for my question. So the question is, what genre would you say it is? I'm trying to decide between speculative fiction and literary fiction right now, though I suppose it's possible too that it's something else entirely. Like, do you think someplace that only publishes non-genre/literary (whatever it's called exactly) would accept it, or would it be more likely to show up in a sci-fi/fantasy publication?
