Read “The Temperament of An Artist” by Brian James Freeman Today!

“The Temperament of an Artist” is an extremely early story of mine, written in middle school and sent out on submission without any revisions because I was a young idiot who just couldn’t wait to mail a new story to the editors I found in the Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Sigh. I still owe a lot of them apology letters for sending them so many bad stories those summers when school was out.

Most of what I published in the 1990s is dead and buried in a folder on my computer for good rea...