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And thoughts of this came up when reading the comments - a 1997 artice from the Miami New Times about a whole folklore developed among homeless children in Miami.
To homeless children sleeping on the street, neon is as comforting as a night-light. Angels love colored light too. After nightfall in downtown Miami, they nibble on the NationsBank building -- always drenched in a green, pink, or golden glow. "They eat light so they can fly," eight-year-old Andre tells the children sitting on the patio of the Salvation Army's emergency shelter on NW 38th Street. Andre explains that the angels hide in the building while they study battle maps. "There's a lot of killing going on in Miami," he says. "You want to fight, want to learn how to live, you got to learn the secret stories." The small group listens intently to these tales told by homeless children in shelters.Absolutely fascinating. And I wonder why I haven't seen anything based on or developed out of this article? (Unless it's in the urban fantasy that's populating the shelves right now that I'm avoiding because I burned out on it years ago...)
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I'm going to have to do some searching to see if anything else has been written on these kids and their stories; it's utterly fascinating.
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Keep linkblogging if you find anything! :D
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I will!
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2009: the year i need to get involved in more writing discussion & make more writing friends.
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even though everything literary i always come across with miami has to do with CRIME. even my writing professors in college were CRIME writers.
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one day though, i will write a MIAMI BASED FANTASY STORY THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE CRIME.
if i ever write fantasy one day. hahah.
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Which has mystified me for years, because of course it's cliche! The bar story has a long and distinguished history, and the whole bloody point was that it was cliche! It wasn't a problem with this particular story.
I don't think he liked, or even understood, genre fiction very much. :D
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(*or trash, you decide!)
after that, i quit and took up poetry.
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Which are not all that bad, actually.
* Which assumes said receiver is sane. If not, then no guarantees.
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all this mention of urban street kids is exciting me though, the more i think about it, because it's totally part of "things i love in life".
i need to learn to finish stuff. or start stuff. instead of stopping work just to get some chicken nuggets.
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i'm a pretty big fan of all colors of street & secret culture. they're just so interesting!
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Most excellent.
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Nothing like having to explain all the major genre conventions to 90% of the peer reviewers and THE FUCKING PROF, none of whom, apparently, have ever cracked a fantasy novel IN THEIR LIVES!
You'd think having basic familiarity with the conventions of well-known genres would be a requirement for the PROF, at least.
I could go into a whole huge rant on this, but that'd just bore you.
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My immediate knee-jerk reaction was that it deserved something much better, but unfortunately I have no desire to write anything about urban street kids.
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Trust me, your knee-jerk reaction was on the ball.
Lackey being Lackey, it was pretty crap.
Shame about her, really. Lackey's earliest, earliest urban fantasy work (Children of the Night, Burning Water) was all right. She wasn't great or anything, but she was a hell of a lot better than she's since degenerated to, and a damn sight less preachy. It was even reasonably dark, and used a lot of stuff from non-European myth. CotN had something from Japan, and Burning Water had Aztec myth as the central theme.
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I didn't step in fairy rings, I remember that one. If you stepped in a fairy ring you could drag something out behind you.
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Of course my childhood folklore was completely buggered by getting my hands on a copy of Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Legends of Schoolchildren at an impressionable age. So I may have been single-handedly responsible for spreading British children's folklore of the first half of the century around central Texas schoolyards. XD
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What really interested me, though, was how elements of it had spread. Last I saw, no one had tracked that.
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