Lovisa

About the Book

This novella, which may seem but a too-flowery romance to some, tries to go deeply into something far more. It has two people who aren’t in love with one another in some conditional or even sadomasochistic way as is so often the case. Rather, they have a total empathic love that is supportive, thoughtful, tender, and vast—something so unique today, if not, indeed, nonexistent in this world we live in.

About the Author

J. Kirby Smith was born in Waterloo, IA in 1948 and now lives in Des Moines with his wife, Cheryl. He worked at many blue collar jobs before retiring in late 2015 and attended U.N.I. College in the 1970’s. He loves playing cards for diversion and escapism and still has to have that occasional glass of wine. One motive for writing this novella, he says, is having to live in a world where people stampede one another while constantly texting and, yet, never bother to speak in complete sentences or have any type of meaningful, thoughtful, vis-a-vis conversation. It irks him so badly, having to continuously suffer vacuous impersonal terms like, later, I’m like, you know what I’m sayin’, or, “have a good one”, in public; he’d almost rather stay home! This is why he finds “Lovisa” and “Derrick” so refreshing, by way of comparison, and exhilarating!