Do you view AH as a literary forum?

Just his long fat prick is green. I have no idea where he's been putting that thing. 😱

There's a story idea. Maybe a challenge.

You wake up, woozy from last night's party. You throw the covers back. Your dick, big as a donkey's and inexplicably green, flops over your leg. It's sticky, but you don't know where it's been. Damn, that must have been some party.
 
Actually, Donkey is a reference to the size of what is big and green; it isn't necessarily an actual Donkey's dick.
Obviuosly punctuation issue here. There are varying ways to interpret, should we use Oxford, Walken, or Shatner commas?
 
Speaking of writing, which I guess we weren't, I have another 750-word story to finish, trim, and send to my editor.
 
One of my previous jobs was attempting to capture feral donkeys in the American Southwest. We used a lot of game cameras to surveil them, and not infrequently got pictures of big donkey dicks (and in night vision, they're all kind of greenish-gray). They're kind of jagged, like a cartoon lightning bolt, so every time I saw one I remembered the line from Braveheart about defeating the English with bolts of lightning from his ass (arse).
 
I really didn't think someone would have a relevant personal story about big green donkey dicks. More fool me.
 
I always feel.... under educated... when the topic of literature comes up.

I should read more than I do.
 
He he. He said "fart."

I know you mean that in a literary way.

You guys got me going researching “fart”, looking for a polite or technical verb form. I found several articles about “flatulence”, but, still, no mention of the action form of the occurrence of flatulence.

After 20 minutes of surfing, I took a shot at word building, and hypothesized: flatulate. Turned out my guess was right; it was found in formal references.

So, I must correct my original response of “no” to Emily’s query, and conclude that AH is indeed literary in that our community efforts have indeed transmuted the commoner's “fart" into a suitable word to use in polite company. Stench notwithstanding.
 
You guys got me going researching “fart”, looking for a polite or technical verb form. I found several articles about “flatulence”, but, still, no mention of the action form of the occurrence of flatulence.

After 20 minutes of surfing, I took a shot at word building, and hypothesized: flatulate. Turned out my guess was right; it was found in formal references.

So, I must correct my original response of “no” to Emily’s query, and conclude that AH is indeed literary in that our community efforts have indeed transmuted the commoner's “fart" into a suitable word to use in polite company. Stench notwithstanding.
Now we just need someone to get into a Proustian reminiscence on a particular flatulent bouquet, how it can transport you to your childhood, that one magical moment when your classmate broke wind...
 
You guys got me going researching “fart”, looking for a polite or technical verb form. I found several articles about “flatulence”, but, still, no mention of the action form of the occurrence of flatulence.

After 20 minutes of surfing, I took a shot at word building, and hypothesized: flatulate. Turned out my guess was right; it was found in formal references.

So, I must correct my original response of “no” to Emily’s query, and conclude that AH is indeed literary in that our community efforts have indeed transmuted the commoner's “fart" into a suitable word to use in polite company. Stench notwithstanding.

I appreciate your effort to elevate the conversation.
 
I agree that lots of threads are about specific elements of writing. More are about the experience of writing. Yet more about public reactions to our stories.

I’m going to figure out the book club thing. But it’s not straightforward. In the meantime? I might post some reviews of works I have enjoyed.

Note: I’m NOT going to post ax jobs for things I disliked. Going to stay positive.

Em
 
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