TO QUOTE NOAH CICERO

"The best writers aren't "writers" at all.

They are people who desperately want to communicate images and ideas to other people,

to communicate.

I would say the first failure of a person who wants to write some stories is calling him or herself a "writer."

Because then you are going to sit down and stare at your computer screen and "write."

And not sit drinking coffee on a park bench on a pretty fall day imagining a scene in your head
and when you have the scene figured out you go to a computer and put the scene into words so a person that is not you can understand and see what you want them to see so they can feel the emotion you want them to feel."

This blog will contain all unpublished stories and poems of mine. I have decided that I believe in the internet enough to allow people to find my writing here, read it. The current standard path of a "good short story" confuses me. Say a very good short story is submitted to a literary magazine, something nice and "reputable", like the Paris Review. They accept the story, and publish it. They pay the writer a fee, a fee that may pay a few bills, and publish the piece in a magazine that reaches less than 100,000 people. Those people have to pay $15 to buy the Paris Review, and most likely will only find three or four articles or stories or poems that they connect with.

With this, with the internet, millions of people can read my story and connect to it and learn. For free. It costs them nothing. It costs them less time than buying and reading a literary magazine. It costs the world less destruction, less use of paper and ink and material.

I want people to read my stories, poems, and thoughts here and, if they like them, email me or comment and tell me. If you are a literary magazine or e-zine and would like to publish something that I've posted here, email me.

Thank you.