Ginosko Literary Journal

Written By Joe Smolen

I just now forced my fingers over my Acer’s keys. I was just now poised for another confession.

But instead of facing up to it, I checked my e-mails for something less toxic to do.

Amazingly, after I had failed for a year to acknowledge Ginosko Journal’s generous acceptance of Jagermeister Don for their Issue #26, Editor Robert Paul Cesaretti at Ginosko, has forgiven my incredible faux pas and he has just told me Jagermeister Don will appear in Issue #27!

Jagermeister Don is the first of my “construction site” stories. It’s an amazing feeling to find out through Ginosko Literary Journal that “fiction” about people who work hard with their hands has an audience in this software world.

This is a very good place for the Lucille Ball quote I will never ever no-how forget:

“I learned the hard way, it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keep busy. Be optimistic. It will restore your faith in yourself.”

My head just got fed!

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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