JOEL M. SMITH

I want to talk to you about a word. This word is controversial. So controversial that it has started fights, ended friendships, even...

Graduations are exciting. You graduate from high school, or trade school, or college, and it's an accomplishment! It's a big deal! You...

Here's a short story I wrote a few years ago. Nothing supernatural, just an idea bonking around in my head. The couple sat down at the...

Missing obvious details can throw a reader out of a story.

The fate of the world depends on the most unlikely people.

3 million years ago, the first humans came to Earth. They had seeded the Earth with many plants and animals they liked, adding to the...

The pandemic affects us all in weird ways. The isolation is crushing. Any human connection is welcome, no matter the circumstances. There...

You take a chance walking down the road, you take a chance when you cross the street, you take a chance simply talking, to any of the...

Harold had heard a marriage counselor once compare sex to eating meals. There are those times when the meal is microwaved pasta or a...

City life is hard. There’s concrete and steel, pollution, noise, and most of all, light. You can’t get away from the houselights,...