NOT TODAY FEAR!

by Kevin Powers

Fear can’t live here and doubt can’t either. Although this fight is internal, it’s too great to lose. As the spelling bee approaches, O’Shea is unsure if he’s prepared to win. As soon as self-doubt crept up, his old friends Fear and Nervous paid him a visit too. They tried to convince him that he was not capable of doing what he is set out to do. On the day of the spelling bee O’Shea stumbles across Fear and Nervous again, but this time he’s prepared. He meets Fear and Doubt with Confidence. O’Shea learns that if he believes in himself, there is nothing that he cannot do. Spelling bees are easy when you believe in yourself.

24 pages, Paperback

Published November 26, 2021

About the author

Kevin Powers was born and raised in Richmond, VA. In 2004 and 2005 he served with the U.S. Army in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq. He studied English at Virginia Commonwealth University after his honorable discharge and received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012.