This page is a portal to some of my stories and poetry (following this long disclaimer). It is intended as an opportunity to share my fictional world with my non-fictional world, be it online or “irl” as the kids say.
All of this work is password protected, however I will be delighted to send you the password if you just shoot me an email at lauren b flax at gmail dotdiddlyot com, and you meet any of the following criteria.
- I know you, irl (in real life) or ibl (in blog life)
- We are within two demonstrable degrees of separation from each other, irl or ibl
- You are a writer interested in expanding your writerly community
- You will provide me with some kind of feedback in the comments, so I can continue to improve my writing. Useful feedback includes:
- You’re awesome!
- Here are all of the typos in this piece.
- This doesn’t make any sense for the following reasons.
- You’re awesome!
- Let me introduce you to my friend who is an agent with ties to big publishing houses, and will find your work spectacular.
- You’re crazy!
- You’re awesome!
- You’re crazy awesome!
- OMG, please write more about feet.
- OMG, please stop writing about feet.
Why do I have to do limit my audience so much? Well, fiction writers have a raw deal as far as blogging goes. Publishers generally want previously unpublished work, and work that is on a public blog is often considered “published.” So, I can’t make any of my work public, indexable by search engines, or any of that stuff that might draw an audience to my fiction in the first place. While every other creative discipline can use a blog as a platform for their work -including non-fiction writers!- fiction writers are, frankly, screwed in this respect. There have been exceptions, of course, but this is hows it goes.
Anyhoo, here’s the stuff.
Fiction
August 2010
Hive
Flash fiction, as it was meant to bee. Published at Staccato Fiction.
July 2010
Flying Backwards
Mischief, thou art a foot.
Wag It Forward
A users guide to your new appendage.
February 2010
Burning
A SPARK response piece that is likely to unpack itself into a much longer work.
November 2009
Signals
A SPARK response piece, with a nod to Yasunari Kawabata.
October 2009
The Body
A meta-triptych.
August 2009
Stanley
You don’t know who I used to be.
September 2007
Planty
A ten minute play about the ageless conundrum: a girl in love with a boy in love with a plant.
Poetry
September 2010
Flight
A SPARK response piece in the form of a villanelle.
May 2010
Rose Heart
A SPARK response piece in the form of a sestina.
August 2009
The Space Between Memories
A SPARK response piece in the form of a sonnet.
June 2009
Piece of Sun
The first poem I wrote after many years of being mad at poetry.
