Sundays
I want to use pictures more in OHG so, I have been scouring on DeviantArt for artistic ones. Sometimes for inspiration in general I will just scroll through there most popular images on the site. After you filter through the fanart you have some really great finds.
Anyway, I saw this image and from what I can tell this is an original artwork. It was posted yesterday and it reminded me of Haley from Sundays almost immediately, it was very creepy. From the hair and eye color to the earrings and black clothes. It is digitally drawn with an airbrushing and the art work in amazing. The person who drew this (username *f-wd) calls the character Fynn and I believe it used in some kind of online role playing game, I'm really not sure. I may become obsessed with this artist.
The artist made a character profile for him and it made me kind of sad this character is in fact nothing like Haley.
So, TD and the prolouge have just been sort of introductions to OHG and don't really tell you anything about this serial. OHG is going to be a mix of women's writing, a bit of Christian fiction and a dash of Kmart Realism.
Ever since Lile introduced me to that term, I have become literally (lol ! writer jokes !) obsessed with it. When I realized I could turn TD into a much larger piece I knew Kmart Realism ( or Dirty Realism or Minimalism as it is often called) was the way to go. It is also a bit of American Realism because it takes place in a specific region and culture.
As always, I did my research and found most of these kmart realism stories are short ones and hard to find because the style died out in the '80s. I settled for reading some old NY Times reviews of kmart realism short story compilations and a few articles in The New Yorker.
In 2001 the NY Times had a review called Up From Kmart. It is a review of the short story collection Zigzagged Down by Bobbie Ann Mason. I thinks she was trying to bring back the dirty realism style. Anyway in describig a character named Wendy the reviewer said :
" Wendy has tasted excitement and spit it out -- she'd rather drink the tap water of normalcy --"
I thought that was a great way of describing the unexceptionalness that is characterisitc of dirty realism stories. The characters are normal and very ordinary like tap water. No frills.
How if fits in
With that in mind, I want to point out the reason OHG is a companion to UL and not a trilogy is because this will not really be a continuation of United Light and have much to do with United Light events.
Also, a large part of this will be retrospective so, be prepared for that.
On Higher Ground
Chapter 1
Playlist
Some of you will hate this music but, I am setting a scene. Some of the music is mood and some of it is music I imagine playing in the background.
-1-A Little Bit Stronger by Sara Evans
-2-I Never Told You by Colbie Callait
-3-Harder To Breathe by Maroon 5
-4- Take Me There by The Rascal Flatts
-5- I Hope You Dance by Leanne Womack
-6- Wait For You by Eliot Yamin
