Dirty-Rotten did actually publish at wrath-bearingtree.com on 12/4/22

Their Editors even used my favorite by-line, “L.W. Smolen” - which is an heirloom - what my mother called my dad after D-Day. LW - Lost Weekend - same in every way as the 1945 Ray Milland movie “Lost Weekend”.

In Paris, among the other street waifs, her hands up under his shirt, she whispered to him “C’est toi pour moi, moi pour toi dans la vie.” He didn’t understand a word, but he knew in his heart then what she meant.

Look for Piaf, soon to be published at Wilderness House Literary Review in their Spring 2023 Issue.