{"id":367,"date":"2011-02-13T23:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T04:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:19:12","slug":"laurel-fixation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/laurel-fixation\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel Fixation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulpsmith<\/em> was a very eclectic magazine. It billed itself as publishing fiction and non-fiction that was at “the interface between popular and experimental where the avant garde is entertainment.” Whatever that really meant, all I knew was that the editors embraced both literary and genre fiction, reprinting a classic pulp story by Manly Wade Wellman at the same time as they were publishing the winner of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Awards … so I felt there was room for me in that place between high culture and pop culture.<\/p>\n

“Laurel Fixation,” which appeared in Pulpsmith<\/em>‘s Spring 1983 issue, is the story of a man who is either obsessed with a dryad … or losing his mind. I left it to the reader to decide which was really occurring.<\/p>\n

Eventually, looking at the stories I was writing during this period, it seemed that there were too many written too closely together that were focussed on people disconnected from their mundane lives, operating in a kind of fugue state. While I thought each story, taken individually, was well-written, when considered together I feared that I was getting into a rut. So I did my best to shrug off that sub-genre.<\/p>\n

“Laurel Fixation” was included in my 2001 short story collection These Words Are Haunted<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pulpsmith was a very eclectic magazine. It billed itself as publishing fiction and non-fiction that was at “the interface between popular and experimental where the avant garde is entertainment.” Whatever that really meant, all I knew was that the editors embraced both literary and genre fiction, reprinting a classic pulp story by Manly Wade Wellman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368,"parent":13,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-367","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}