Bodega

Oct 31

Almost unbelievably, I just received an e-mail from Bodega Magazine accepting a flash fiction of mine.

What is more, they are willing to pay me $35 for this story. A basic contract was even included with the e-mail along with a request to change a single word in the story. All just very, very nifty.

That someone would pay me cash for a story is a dream come true, is over-the-top huge for a neophyte like me.

Only problem is, Bodega is looking for un-pubbed stories.

As it would happen, back last year, a made a mess of a withdrawal from Bodega for the story in question and they viewed it “in process” while I had pubbed it at Friday Flash Fiction 10/30/20.

If Bodega can still use my story, it will be a miracle. It is called Whose Are You? and can be read in my “Works”.

Thanks for hearing my knucklehead confession.

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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