Unbelievable FLASH! This sublimely beautiful piece of graphic grotesquerie is soon to publish at Wrath-Bearing Tree
At 390 words, Dirty-Rotten is a mere slip of a story. I sent this story to no less than 58 publications before someone realized what they were reading. I’ll pub it here after it appears at Wrath-Bearing Tree.
Some knucklehead published Dirty-Rotten in Posts.
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.
