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Just One Thing with Scott Fenton

October 24, 2018

This month's featured short story comes from Scott Fenton. We immediately fell in love with the title character in "Amber Darling." In addition to a truly wonderful Elvis tribute, Scott shares with us just one thing about the inspiration behind Amber:

 

"'Amber Darling' is about a girl on the cusp of adulthood navigating a relationship with her volleyball coach. When the volleyball team takes a trip to Florida to compete in a tournament, Amber and Coach Darling work to maintain their secrecy, but whether their coupling is found out by the other girls on the team is largely beside the point, I think. I was interested in giving Amber a sense of agency, in showing her in a position of power. This, I hope, subverts the reader’s expectation for how a story like this might unfold. I was inspired by the movie Wild at Heart, particularly the truly bonkers (by which I mean incredible) performance of Laura Dern as Lula, a richly drawn character whose contradictions create a compelling sort of friction. Earlier in my story, Amber playacts being a full-fledged adult, citing 'love languages' and her ability to properly set a table as proof of her maturity, but by the end, she has found 'the glow'—she is simply too bright and too brilliant to ever be someone’s possession."

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