Fiction: Fifteen Minutes Of Fame by Mary Patricia Bird

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“This must be my fifteen minutes of fame,” Janice thought as she posed for pictures. She smiled her biggest, proudest smile as the bright lights of camera flashes sparked around her. She turned to the left, then to the right. She held her daughter close, sharing the moment with her.

“Isn’t this wonderful?” she said through smiling teeth.

“Yes,” Amy agreed without moving her lips.

We’ve all seen those pictures of celebrities caught in mid-sentence, mouth wide open, eyes half-closed. It was important to maintain the pose.

Amy looked at her mom, still smiling. “Mom – “

Janice squeezed her daughter’s shoulder. “Don’t look at me. The cameras,” she warned through gritted teeth.

The flashes continued as photographers called out their names and those of the others who stood nearby. There was another glowing woman with her smiling teenage daughter, and her husband too.

Everyone smiled and waved, taking in every moment of the hysteria while photographers pushed at each other trying to get that perfect shot. One was not enough, apparently. Were they hoping they would slip up and stop smiling long enough to lick their lips?

Janice’s lips felt tight and dry but she continued to smile and nod until one of the organizers stepped in.

“Okay, that’s enough. This way.”  He ushered Janice and the others along. He held open the hotel door as these newfound stars made their way inside, away from the screaming paparazzi.

Once inside Janice released her daughter. “Isn’t this wonderful, Amy?”

Amy’s smile faded quickly. “Yes, Mom, but you seem to have forgotten something.”

“What’s that, dear?”

“I’m the one who won the gold medal, not you.”

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Mary Patricia Bird hails from Orangeville, Ontario, Canada where she is a member of the Headwaters Writers’ Guild, a local writing group. She writes poetry, short stories and is currently polishing up her first novel. She is married with two teenage daughters who are a great inspiration for her writing and sense of humour.

 
Headwaters Writers’ Guild website http://www.owg.netfirms.com/

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Writing: The World According To Flash Fiction

Cover of "Death Wish"

Cover of Death Wish

The world is so vast and a flash fiction story is so small.  Still, the flash fiction writer can capture the entire world in his or her fiction.  The writer just has to do it 1,000 words at a time.

As I write this there is civil war in Libya, an earth quake and tsunami in Japan and unions for public workers in the United States are under attack.  All these events can form the backdrop for the lives of the characters of flash fiction just like they are the backdrop for the life of the flash fiction writer.

Flash fiction is the world.

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I’m watching retro tv in Pittsburgh.  A movie with Charles Bronson is on.  I did not see the opening credits of the movie but it must be one of the movies in the Death Wish series.  Charles Bronson is the protagonist.  His housekeeper and daughter were raped and killed by a gang of street thugs.  He is a good man; but has become a vigilante and spends the movie hunting down and killing the thugs. 

The character Bronson plays is a perfect example of a very flawed protagonist, a flawed protagonist whose actions may be legally wrong but whose actions are understandable.

Years ago, the Death Wish serious was very, very popular.

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“A Porn Star Is Born” is at the top of the page.

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There is some bad in the best of us and some good in the worst of us.

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Bloggers, readers and writers are welcome to explore this blog, home of the flash fiction story.

Why Do Good Girls Do Porn?

 

Montana Fishburne

Thousands of young women throughout the United States volunteer to become sex performers in the porn industry every day.

Why?

Is it the notoriety?  Is it the money?  Is it the thrill of uninhibited sex?  The porn business draws in more billions of dollars every year than the music and movie businesses combined.  Think about that for a moment.  Combined.  Recently, the daughter of the award-winning actor Lawrence Fishburne, Montana Fishburne, did her first porn movie at the age of 19.  She is pictured in the photo.  Media reports say her father is devastated.

When this post was first published I misidentified Lawrence Fishburne’s daughter as Montoya.  Her name is Montana.

Writing: A Porn Star Is Born

Montoya Fishburne

Montoya Fishburne, the daughter of award-winning actor Lawrence Fishburne, caused a scandal and media sensation when she starred in her first porn movie and stated publicly that she had always wanted to do porn.

Hello, my brother and sister bloggers, writers, University of Pittsburgh community, fans on Twitter and Facebook and my Flash Fiction Fanatics.  The Old Soldier has tackled the porn industry in a short story titled “A Porn Star Is Born.”

After researching the porn industry, I tried to capture why a young woman would want to make a career of making porn movies.  To have the story delivered to your inbox, click on the “A Porn Star Is Born” tab at the top of the page.

This is the Old Soldier blogging out of Pittsburgh.

News: Laurence Fishburne’s Daughter Does Porn

Laurence Fishburne's Daughter

It is no surprise to me that the 19-year-old daughter of award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne has just done her first porno movie.

Hello hello hello, my brother and sister bloggers, writers and Flash Fiction Fanatics.  Media reports have surfaced that Montana Fishburne has just starred in her first porn movie.  Her dad must be stunned.  And reports say that the award-winning actor is devastated, but I’m not surprised by what his daughter has done.  She moved out of the house when she was 18.

One source quoted Montana Fishburne as saying, “Being in an adult film is not a big deal to me.”

The Old Soldier is no prude, but I must admit that when I try to get inside the heads of all these young girls who voluntarily allow their bodies to be ravished I can’t make that transition.  Once, I did write a flash fiction story about a young woman who talks her boyfriend into making sex tapes and selling them on the Internet.  The only motivations I could think of giving this young woman were money, notoriety and just  plain exhibitionism mixed with plenty of youthful lust.  But from the vantage point of my age, 63, is that enough?  I guess when you’re 19 years old like Montana Fishburne it is.

I wrote the following news commentary about adult videos a few weeks ago.  Of course, I wasn’t writing about young girls with famous fathers.

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News: A Commentary About Adult Videos

Pornography was around long before the Internet.  It was around before the invention of writing.  It can be found in numerous scenes painted on the walls of caves by our ancestors.  The Internet has sent the production and consumption of porn into overdrive.  An ever-increasing number of willing young women are showing up in porn videos.  Why?

I have read reports that the porn industry makes more billions of dollars than the movie industry and the music industry combined.  I have no doubt that the day will come when the porn-industry lobby will be one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington D.C. 

The Old Soldier is no prude.  My own niece has been a webcam stripper since she was 19.  She’s in her early 20s now and makes more money each year than I ever made each year I was working before I retired.  She doesn’t do hard-core pornography…yet.

It is my belief that the stream of young women into porn is only going to increase.  Already, young women text pictures of themselves nude.  They make home videos of themselves having sex.  The logical next step is to get paid to do what they are already doing.  And if that means having sex with one or more strange men, so be it.

Being in a porn video does not carry the sort of stigma it use to for many young women between the ages of 18 and 25, many who are in college.  They use false names, withhold the names of their universities and then proceed to allow their bodies to be ravaged.  For so many of them, it’s naughty and very exciting stuff, all those aroused men and all those video cameras pointed at them, all those flash cameras going off in the background.  Often, the women have their own orgasms.  It’s easy money.

Like any industry, some porn sites are run better than others.  The smart porn sites make the shoots fun for the women. 

There is one site that interviews the women before the shoot.  The interview is done in an office, the women in their street clothes.  The guy doing the interview has a talent for making these young women relax, to feel more comfortable about what is about to happen.  The interview makes the women seem very human.  They are definitely not porn stars.  They are strictly amateurs.  This site only wants amateurs.  Many of the amateurs are articulate. 

After the shoot the women are again in their street clothes in the office for a final interview.  They are asked what they thought of the shoot, what they did and did not like.  You would be surprised at what many of them liked.  Let me put this as politely as I can.  A lot of them like the butt to mouth.  The male talent’s penis in the young womans’s butt then put directly in her mouth.  And the reason the young women give for liking this: “It’s so dirty.”  In describing the shoot the women often use the “fun.”

  A large percentage offer to come back and shoot another video.  They agree to do things in the next video that they did not do in the first video.  Some have such a good time in the first video that they end up recommending their friends to the site.  You can’t pay for that sort of publicity.  In this way, the site has a never-ending stream of willing young women to have in its sex videos. 

This can be easy money for the young women who do porn as a youthful experiment and then get out.  The trick seems to be not to end up on poorly run sites and not to become addicted to the easy money.

I can see the day coming when it won’t be unusual for a happily married woman in her 40s to be having a morning cup of coffee with her best female friend and to confide in her friend that she was pretty wild in her teens and 20s, that she did five porn videos from the time she was 18 to the time she was 26; only to have the best friend ask, “Did you ever see any of ’Mary’s Hot Gangbangs’?”

“You mean…”

“Yep, that was little old me.  I had the first orgasms in my life on those shoots.  The site kept bringing me back because they knew I wasn’t faking.  The guys subscribing to the site knew I wasn’t faking.  I ended doing seven gangbangs in all.”

“Does Steve know?”

“He would die.  Bob?”

“What they don’t know won’t hurt them.”

The End

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