Hello and Happy Friday,

I was going to submit a short story today but it’s not short enough obviously and I’m still working on it and hope to –hope to—have it next week. I really did believe I could write a good short story in one short week but I was kidding myself something awful. As you know I’m a slow writer which already doomed my story to taking longer. For the other, my short story is more complicated than I thought it would be. The story titled ‘Less Than” was born from a dream and in the dream everything, all the details, the character’s names, the essential story is done. But of course, when I got to writing the dream (the story) down it was ephemeral like dreams are, not solid, one dimensional; more of an outline than a story. So I have to fill the dream in and make it a living, breathing, solid story and that takes time.

I’ll keep working on the story until it’s done; as we all do. Keep working on yours too; a story, a poem a novel because in the end, it’s all we can do.

If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: mathewsla@hotmail.com

Until next time, God willing