After three hand-written drafts, I finally put my latest short story, Symbiosis, into a file on my PC. I will read it once each of the next few days, polishing and correcting. I'm disappointed that it is very similar to 80% of my literary pieces - until the end. At least it will soon be out of my head except for those moments when something I should have added occurs to me, as is the case with most my works, even those going back to the 80's. I think it's at 98% now. The similarity to other stories would be a hindrance only if all of them were to be in a compilation. Published years apart in magazines hundreds of miles from each other, no one is likely to notice. How many people even read a particular piece? I'd be thrilled if it were a thousand but doubt it's half that much. One of mine, His Destiny, a Hitchcock-like tale, part of the A Hitch in Twilight collection, has received almost 16,000 hits at buzzle.com. Rain & Rhubarb, a literary story, has received almost 12,000, Brief Look at the Subconscious of a Middle Age Man, humor, has 9500. The rest have 7000 or less. Those I've posted at fictionaut.com have 100-200 each. Of course, there's no way to distinguish between a hit and an actual read except for a comment someone may leave, and those are few. I was thinking about changing the title of the latest, as I'm not confident I applied it correctly, but I chose to add a line about that instead. Does that invalidate it? I'll let others decide.
Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma, has been an aide to Hillary Clinton for years. The Weiners remind me of the former and future first couple in that they are undeterred by scandal. They will cling to the allure of political office, convinced their services are indispensable to the public. Their hope is to be major players in the theater of the absurd that is politics. The Weiner's problem is that they are trying to do it in a weak economy. The sins of the Clintons were forgiven because of the trickle down wealth the internet boom brought. Some people believe Slick Willie created it. He probably believes it himself.
I feel as if I lost a great opportunity to sell books today. I spent this cool afternoon accompanying a handicapped friend to the doctor, and it turned into a marathon of waiting -- an hour-and-a-half for a five-minute visit. Why didn't he simply phone and tell her the biopsy had come back negative? My guess is he wanted the easy money of a Medicare billing. He treated the woman, who is now crawling around with her walker, in agony going up and down steps, as a piggy bank. What a disgrace.
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Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
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