#013 Inside the Emotion of Fiction HIS FULL ATTENTION by Alexis Rhone Fancher, published by RAGAZINE in December 2017 and print in Café Reader, New Zealand in March of 2018
Name of fiction work? And were there other names you considered that you would like to share with us? “His Full Attention.” An earlier title was “The Spanish Lesson.”
Fiction genre? Ex science fiction, short story, fantasy novella, romance, drama, crime, plays, flash fiction, historical, comedy, etc. And how many pages long? Flash Fiction. 1,015 words (approx. 4 pages).
What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? Begun on Oct. 20th, 2017. Finished on May 3rd, 2018.
Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work? And please describe in detail. And can you please include a photo? I always write at my desktop computer in my studio.
What were your writing habits while writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I always write in the early morning, 5 a.m. I’ve photographed the sunrise, done my morning meditation, and brewed a large mug of French Roast coffee. Then I go to work. I always write using a keyboard, either my iMac or my iPad, with a remote keyboard. When I’m traveling, I write on my iPhone. I never work longhand.
What is the summary of your fiction work? “His Full Attention” is the story of an eager, precocious, yet naive girl who hooks up with the wrong guy.
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Please include excerpt and include page numbers as reference. The excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer.
“I am newly seventeen, sick to death of my vanilla life, my womanhood a bravado with no foundation. So when Eduardo kisses me, I open my mouth. When he puts his hands on my breasts I help him take off my sweater. I’ve fantasized this moment for years, hot sex with some dark, silent stranger who knows how to touch me.”
Can you give the reader just enough information for them to understand what is going on in the excerpt? I think the excerpt is self-explanatory. 🙂
Why is this excerpt so emotional for you? And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing this specific excerpt? Although I call this Flash Fiction, there is a huge element of truth in this piece. It’s a cautionary tale about what not to do. I knew I skated, that this “date” could indeed have ended as it does in the piece. I never put myself in that situation again.
Other works you have published? Links to my books for sale on the web:
How I lost my Virginity to Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems
Anything you would like to add? Although I’m known primarily as a poet, I have been branching out more and more into prose, at first with prose poems, and then short, flash, and micro fiction. The response has been encouraging, and my fiction has been published in literary magazines such as Blood Orange Review, Shark Reef, Cafe Reader, New Zealand, Ragazine and KYSO Flash. My illustrated novella-in-progress, MY CRIMINAL BOYFRIEND, will be finished in 2019.
Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry 2016, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, Plume, Tinderbox, Cleaver, Diode, and elsewhere. Her books include: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen…, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, Enter Here, and Junkie Wife. Next up?
The Dead Kid Poems, the follow up chapbook to State of Grace, which will be published in early
2019 by KYSO Flash Press, and EROTIC: New & Selected, which will be published in late 2019
by New York Quarterly. Alexis’s photographs are published worldwide, including the covers of
Witness, Heyday, and Pithead Chapel, and spreads in River Styx and The Chiron Review. Since
2013 she has been nominated 22 times for the Pushcart Prize. Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural
Weekly.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.fancher
Website: www.alexisrhonefancher.com
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