Monthly Archives: August 2010

Story Using the Most Common Words

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Once upon a time, I stumbled across a list of the most commonly used words, and I thought it’d be fun to try to make a tiny piece of flash fiction using them. This is far harder than it looks, considering the words are so generic, and I had to leave out a great deal more than I wanted to. Nevertheless, here is the result:

Upon A Time Very Up, She Said That There Are Others After.

Before, The One.

From Only Me To Him, His Unto This All Came Down.

And My, He Has Been With, By, In You, Like God.

But Who Now? Should We Be Over?

So What More Can I Do, Lord?

Her Will Is Great, As Such People Were Not Made For Two.

Then May Any Of These Have Your Little Man.

Some Did.

It Was Us Or Them.

Unused: On At They Had Their Which An Shall If Would Those Could Its Out Into No About When Our Mr. Than

Your turn to give it a whirl!

-Lux Zakari.

Interview: SCARLETT GREYSON

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Today’s installment of the Dirtyville/Kinkyville interview series features Scarlett Greyson, author of The Dentist’s Wife in the Kinkyville collection and Strawberry Social in the Dirtyville collection. She shares with us her thoughts on which work of her she’s most proud of, her serial project The New Canvas and writing Twitterotica.

LUX ZAKARI: What initially prompted you to submit your stories for the Dirtyville/Kinkyville collection?

SCARLETT GREYSON: I actually wrote Strawberry Social expressly with intent to submit it to the Dirtyville submission call. When Sommer announced the anthology, I knew that I simply had to submit a piece to her. The inspiration came to me while talking with someone about the signs of summer; as a kid, you knew summer was in full swing when the strawberry festivals began.

The Dentist’s Wife, however, was a bit of a different creature. That piece was actually written as a piece of Twitterotica, done on the fly in a handful of tweets one day. Sommer was online and grabbed it, asking me later if I would submit it to the collection, that she’d loved it. That was that!

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Fondness for “Coercion”

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I have a thousand mini suns and rainbows and chocolate chip cookies floating around my head after stumbling across author Rosalie Stanton’s review of my novel Coercion on GoodReads.com — eee! This is especially exciting as I’m familiar with Rosalie’s work, which is smokin’ hot with realistically happy endings — things I look for and love in a story.

For details re: Rosalie Stanton and her work, visit www.rosalie-stanton.com.

What I’m most excited about this review is not only that Rosalie admitted she didn’t read stories like Coercion but found it “fantastic” nonetheless, but the empathy that was shown toward the characters was really important to me. I want to depict people/love/sex in a real way but in a balanced, just-desserts way as well, and that means revealing people with real flaws and problems.

Thank you, Rosalie, for getting that!

-Lux Zakari.

For a copy of Coercion, visit www.lyricalpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_12&products_id=315.