Friends,Thanks for being a supporter and reader. Let me know if there are stories, travel pieces, etc that catch your fancy. If you like what you read please share.Every week, I’ll be sharing one of my short stories, articles, and essays here. (Though I write a lot, I am a slow editor.) Over the decades, poetry, fiction, plays, essays, has always been one of the core elements of my life. I find that one of my great joys is as a storyteller. This past summer I had appeared and performed at the: Federation of European Storytellers, Swedish Story telling Festival, and the Stuttgard Festival.Sadly, the market for short stories has largely vanished — or at least the market for paid short stories. I don’t want to sound old, but back in the 1980s, I could write a story, submit it ten times, and generally receive a decent check. Those days are long gone.Even the great writer Ray Bradbury admitted that the market for short fiction — the one he once made a steady living from — had largely disa…