Short Stories by Scott Holleran
Short Stories by Scott Holleran Podcast
Prelude to the Podcast
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Prelude to the Podcast

Author’s preliminary thoughts on the short story podcast

I invite you to subscribe and listen to my short stories. Review, comment and critique them. Know that, if and when you do subscribe, you feed a writer forging a new path.

Talent does not survive all obstacles. In fact, in the face of hardships, talent is the first one to perish; the rarest plants are usually the most fragile. Our present-day struggle for existence is the coarsest and ugliest phenomenon that has ever appeared on earth. It takes a tough skin to face it, a very tough one. Are talented people born with tough skins? Hardly. In fact, the more talent one possesses the more sensitive one is, as a rule. And if there is a more tragic figure than a sensitive, worthwhile person facing life without money—I don’t know where it can be found.”

—Ayn Rand, Letters of Ayn Rand


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