short stories, Storyteller, writer I wrote this in 2018, I am glad i didn’t give up and didn’t allow the errors of others ruin my life. Embracing living in the moment, living for the day helped bring me to the wonderful life I have now been leading. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be

Facebook morphed from a social media platform to a data mining operation. The algorithm changed over and over. These days, instead of seeing the most recent news from our friends list, only top stories are displayed. Even when we choose the “most recent” option, we don’t get posts from everyone on our friends list in our news-feed. Only a select sampling shows up. If we scroll down far enough, we’ll notice something interesting, the same posts mystically re-appear, over and o

Author, Ernest Hemingway Hemingway was counted among the lost generation. Today, are we living with a spoonfed generation? Has a generation which has been conditioned by an educational system that teaches to standardized testing to be little more than mind-numb automatons, regurgitating information and data as a demonstration of intelligence, now having difficulty grasping Papa’s concept of omission as a means to improve story? Is it possible, that because of the US education

When I lived in Northeast PA, I viewed autumn as the harbinger of the white death. Then, for the last four years on Oahu's North Shore, I viewed it as the harbinger of growing whitecaps. Now, in South Florida, I view it as warmth, sunshine, breeze filled days and peace with the love of my life. The Author’s Philosophy Joe Leonardi, who hosts his works on his official site Short Story Scribe, describes himself not as a rigid essayist or English professor, but as a pure storyt

It isn’t about the number of words the author writes — It is about the story the author tells with the number of words written Leonardi identifies primarily as a storyteller rather than a formal academic, emphasizing raw, narrative-driven impact over rigid grammatical structures. His personal website and bibliography can be explored via his Amazon Author Profile. About the Author Doc Joe an author who frequently writes about heavy psychological, emotional, and health-relat

It isn’t about the number of words the author writes — It is about the story the author tells with the number of words written The Author’s Philosophy Joe Leonardi, who hosts his works on his official site Short Story Scribe, describes himself not as a rigid essayist or English professor, but as a pure storyteller. He emphasizes that the emotional core and truth of the narrative itself matter far more than flawless sentence structure or technical grammar perfection. Many of

Why write Creating a School Shooter? #bullying, #school shootings Back in 2018, if memory serves me correctly, I was interviewed by Jim Riley of Bold Gold Media. He asked me what I hoped to accomplish by writing about the creation of a school shooter. Since the original writing of this novella, the problem has sadly worsened. I think now, more than ever, Tortured and Tormented needs to be not only read, but spark the conversations that I had originally hoped. I pray for all o

Excerpt: ……It has only been two days and already everyone knows why Angelo left. Their attention turns to me. “What happened to the fat baby? Did he cry?” I ignore them. That only makes it worse. “Are you going to leave now? Are you going to cry? Are you a fat baby, or are you just a baby fatty?” And there it is – the nickname that sticks. I am no longer called by my name. I am no longer called by any other names. I am only called by one. As I alone leave for the day, in unis

1: To get started, write one true sentence. Hemingway had a simple trick for overcoming writer’s block. In a memorable passage in A Moveable Feast, he writes: Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written

...and purchase your copy today. Thank you War Springs Eternal is a poignant, thematic work by storyteller Joe Leonardi. It serves as Book 2 of his fictional/memoir-style anthology, The Damaged and Broken Collection. The book is deeply rooted in exploring the profound guilt, trauma, and enduring psychological scars borne by combat veterans. Rather than focusing strictly on tactical military maneuvers, Leonardi centers his narrative on the internal erosion experienced by soldi