Thank God for Big Boobs

and thank you to the readers on Medium

Photo by Hello Revival on Unsplash

At the risk of jinxing it, I’m going to post this.

Starting in May of 2021 I began putting stories and poems on Medium almost every day. I enjoyed it, and did all the things I thought I was supposed to do. I made 10 bucks the first month, 15 the second. It looked like it was going well. On the third month I made 22 bucks! Like many people I thought my earnings would continue to escalate. I figured I had it made in the shade with a vodka lemonade.

August came with a whopping 12 bucks. I started posting a serialized novel and that went over like a turd in a tea cup. It demoralized me.

Some devastating personal issues hit me and in November I just said fuck it and stopped posting and pretty much forgot about Medium.

Then one day in the middle of this month I started getting notifications via email. Some people were noticing me on Medium, clapping, making comments. I didn’t pay it any attention.

But they kept coming. Finally I realized that all the notifications were about the same story. A story I had posted on August 18th called Pool Parties and Big Boobs. It was a story about my cab driving days, a story which is in my book, “6 to 6” published a couple years ago by Terror House Press, and which has netted me…