Barefoot Path

Rock-crushing machinery and a writer’s mind are similar in out-put.

These weekly-or-so Posts I write are coarse, 3” broken rock material only useful in the repair of logging roads – aggregate big enough to support loaded log trucks, too small to cut the sidewalls of your tires.

Probably, the smallest rock-crusher product is called “quarter-minus” - of a consistency that fines down from ¼” to sand. Quarter-minus is a paver, too. People use it in secret gardens. Secluded barefoot paths, winding beside little hidden ponds are paved in quarter-minus – finishing inviting approaches to seating-area sanctuaries - where someone might promise their hand.

Quarter-minus – almost the same thing as the published fictions found in WORKS here on this site – useful for barefoot paths.

Joe Smolen

Joe C. Smolen, AKA L.W. Smolen is an Oregon Coast writer of insufficiently exaggerated notoriety. Never having been arrested, he lives with his wife Sherrie and the ghost of their black, Standard Poodle Rico Suave in a really pretty good, Prairie Style house they built themselves. Since the Literary Magazine Fleas on the Dog of Kitchener, Ontario has permanently stopped accepting submissions, in order to read L.W. Smolen’s 2021 short fiction, A Real Guy, you are referred to joecsmolen.com. Some of L.W’s other, subsequent short fictions are archived at Olive Tree Review, Ginosko, Cardinal Sins Journal, Wrath Bearing Tree, Wilderness House and etc. Kirkus reviews once interpreted his work favorably.

https://joecsmolen.com
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