Slam-Bang

Written By Joe Smolen

Want to improve the quality of your writing? Have you have heard of subliminal learning? All you gotta do is get rid of about half your living room furniture(or your bed), buy a Bowflex exercise machine and a copy of the double Bob Dylan album The Essential Bob Dylan and start working out regularly.

The way this works, on your cheezy little new thrift store stereo, you play one of the CDs in your new album and happily hammer out the reps while, over a coupla years, those archaic(Bob’s words) songs with his “slam-bang actions words” become part of you. Subterranean Homesick Blues and Tangled Up In Blue are not on the same disc. Maggie’s Farm will fry you early, but Maggie’s brother will have a second coming. This is my exact experience.

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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