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23 September 2005 - 12:51pm
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By gballsout
I have to pimp a story subcription you might like.
It's called "One Story" and it comes out 18 times a year. It is exactly what it says...one short story a month (with a couple extras a year) in a small paper booklet. When I receive it, I try to read it as soon as possible b/c the stories are just a quick respite from the trials and races of the everyday. And as it's one story, it's not an overwhelming chore. Once it's over, it's done, but it gives you something to think on for the rest of the day.
and the editor states she's always looking for unpublished work btw 3-8000 words. So word up to you fiction writers. It's hard to get published in fiction.
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I decided to write a short story on my life with bipolar disorder, but as fiction. Gotta write what you know, you know?
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Middle class white girls who casually use pimp as a verb are so much cooler than middle class white boys who casually call each other niggers.
Keep keepin' it real, homegirl.
I resent being called middle class. Poor white trash? Now that's keeping it real. ;-)
But *pimping* (as a verb) crossed into the venacular a long time before MTV started using it and is popular language. Nigga isn't in Websters, but pimp is in my 15 year old copy. It's reached the level of the word "cool" or the *high/gimme-five*, which weren't *white* expressions. And *pimping* was never soley an African-american word. Whites and Latinos also engaged in it as a a term for sex, erm, liasons (go-betweens). I'd never use "nigga" if that makes you feel any better.
As distasteful as using a word like "nigga" by white suburban or black urbans, for that matter, might be for you or I, this is how our language evolves. Words get picked up from other cultures, even cultures that exist in the mostly white world of the US.
Frankly, it makes me crazy when my Latino neighbors and co-workers call me: Mami. Makes me want to pound the shit out of them every time. But it's cultural and I try really hard to keep that in mind.
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