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Jerry Long was writer/editor/manager of communications for several not-for-profits in the Chicago area. He often ghosted articles and wrote speeches for others. When he retired eleven years ago, he turned to fiction for personal satisfaction. He has had some success ─ publishing a few poems and short stories in small literary magazines.
He considers writing short stories a painterly process. He constantly reworks visual details, taking his cue from Joseph Conrad’s famous dictum: “I am trying by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel ─ it is, before all, to make you see.”
He writes primarily for himself now, but suspects that his natural audience is one whose age has hit fifty. Younger readers (and writers) have their own notion of what is “edgy” he says, pointing to Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, 30 Rock and Portlandia. His e-mail address: Jerome Long