Give My Love to the Savages

Written By Joe Smolen

I’m nakedly aware that new fictions from me are pretty thin right now.

So, after my own heart, as a more-than-adequate substitute, let me introduce Chris Stuck.

I am recommending him on the basis of his single story I read in Pushcart XLV. Wherever you might find it, Chris’ is

 

Give My Love to the Savages

I have never read much of this level of beauty before. Subjective? I suppose, but Stuck’s inclusion in prestigious Pushcart, an annual prize recognizing exceptional prose and poetry says more than I can.

 

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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