"The Fox in the Garden" by Kyt Dotson

[Amerist]

"It was 1635. During the time of the Tokugawa, not too many years before the British were expelled from Nippon, Minister Miyoshi no Kyoyuki of Edo decided to indulge in a practice he had heard rumored of the British.

He decided to throw a masquerade and invited into his household all the British merchants who had made him rich..."

"The Fox in the Garden" by Kyt Dotson at Fictionaut.

 

[lrkun]

"It was 1635. During the time of the Tokugawa, not too many years before the British were expelled from Nippon, Minister Miyoshi no Kyoyuki of Edo decided to indulge in a practice he had heard rumored of the British.

He decided to throw a masquerade and invited into his household all the British merchants who had made him rich..."

"The Fox in the Garden" by Kyt Dotson at Fictionaut.

Do you like the story?

 

[Amerist]

Do you like the story?

Yes!

Disclaimer: I wrote the story.

 

[lrkun]

Do you like the story?

Yes!

Disclaimer: I wrote the story.

Cool. Do you do this as a hobby or as a profession or as a whim?

 

[Amerist]

Cool. Do you do this as a hobby or as a profession or as a whim?

All three.

I write professionally for money; but in the case with "The Fox in the Garden" I haven't seen a market that I was willing to sell it to for a few years, and I've got a few stories laying around like that, so I figured I might as well just release it as a showing. I also have a few projects that I just write -- and I don't receive money for them -- however, I keep them up in order to be part of the community of web fiction authors and to forward the genre in order to make it more acceptable to the literary cognoscenti.

 

[lrkun]

Cool. Do you do this as a hobby or as a profession or as a whim?

All three.

I write professionally for money; but in the case with "The Fox in the Garden" I haven't seen a market that I was willing to sell it to for a few years, and I've got a few stories laying around like that, so I figured I might as well just release it as a showing. I also have a few projects that I just write -- and I don't receive money for them -- however, I keep them up in order to be part of the community of web fiction authors and to forward the genre in order to make it more acceptable to the literary cognoscenti.

Wow, I am partial to writers. Their command of the english language always left me in awe, as well as their way of making the reader feel different emotions. Good for you. Keep up the great work.

Usually, what topics do you address when you write? Ex. Themes?

 

[Amerist]

Wow, I am partial to writers. Their command of the english language always left me in awe, as well as their way of making the reader feel different emotions. Good for you. Keep up the great work.

Usually, what topics do you address when you write? Ex. Themes?

Huh.

I really haven't thought about that.

Well. If I were to look over most of my work, I'd say my primary themes have been ones of dispossession -- or at least, cultures that live and exist underfoot. I spent most of my anthropological thesis building on itinerant culture, spent a while homeless (abusive family), and found a lot of humanity there. As a result, I like to use street rats as vehicles for culture and morality in my stories. In fact, one of the lines from Mill Avenue Vexations happened to go something like, "As everyone should have expected, the last people, to make the last stand, would be the street rats."

I also have a love for detectives. Mostly because I grew up on Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, Trixie Belden, Sherlock Holmes, and Diana Tregarde (I recently got to watch all of Veronica Mars, I love that show, too bad it died before I could watch it.) As a result, most of my stuff is about discovery, imagination, and social crimes -- I don't know that I'd like to write anything about murder mysteries, they don't really compel me, too urbane? I prefer grand frauds perpetrated with good intentions, or even bad intentions as long as the cause is imaginative.

Outside of that, and connected to the dispossession, I tend to write a lot of class conflict into my storytelling. My young adult fiction happens to involve almost unsubtle differences between classes of Fairy folk, nobility and commoners, split visibly across racial lines -- although dramatically blurred by social pragmatism and the knowledge that even the nobles are in it together with the commoners.

Most of my stuff is fantastic or fantasy -- although, one could argue that Black Hat Magick is rather a type of fantasy cum science fiction as I try my best to combine computer geekery with occult magick -- but generally, I like the epic storytelling of distant wars, huge magical communities taking spear an sword against great evils from the time of myth. Except that I prefer that in the background. Nothing like JRR Tolkien where the war is at your doorstep. In mine, the threat is always there, and sometimes it's raging around the characters, but they're merely amid the war, not directing or swooping through it.

Well, I think that covers my current breadth of work, but I'm sure I'm missing some trivial aspects. Back to watching YouTUBE videos for me.

 

[lrkun]

I see. I'll check your work one of these days.