Doubt

As a writer, there are times when I live with a tangible, sinking fear that I’m not capable of what I’m envisioning, because even though it is nothing but a nebulous concept or feeling, I’m telling you! I can see its eyes glowing to me through the darkness from out beyond the firelight. And this disembodied entity embodies such thrilling beauty for me! That’s where the anxiety comes in, when, because I experience such inadequacy at these times, my floundering feeling is the same as having lost someone I love

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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