Ask The Author: Carol Deminski

Carol Deminski’s “The Price of Luxury” was published in the February Issue.

1. What would be your other other car?

The International Space Station. I’d love to be a space tourist.

2. How would you feel about knowing a man who is macking on mother and daughter at the same time?

I must be out of touch because I never saw the word ‘macking’ before and I thought you made it up. Then I thought about the song Mack the Knife, but I don’t know if the character in that song was a ladies man? The Urban Dictionary says it’s a Pimp Daddy. There is also, god help us, a Macking Dictionary with The Ten Mack Commandments by The Rum Dog Crew online. It’s dispicable, as you’d expect.

3. Would you rather be rakish or foppish?

Rakish. Although Oscar Wilde pulled off foppish so well, it was tempting to answer foppish. I resisted.

4. What would you do for money?

I’d like to answer the question: what would you do for no money? My answer is continue to hone my craft as a writer. I dedicate large swaths of time to writing. It’s never for the money. This raises important questions – questions which don’t have great answers…like how many short story writers will continue putting out amazing work and not get paid? Just as editors and small literary magazines operate on the good will, blood and sweat of their volunteer staffs also without compensation. How long can such communities sustain themselves?

You know what – let’s go back to your original question. I’d write for money, if I could figure out how.

5. What would you be willing to pay to have a question answered? What would be that question?

I’d be willing to pay an unlimited amount of money to be able to understand exactly how my mind works and how to improve my results with the mind I’ve got. But since only I can answer that question, it would be pretty silly to pay myself, right?

6. Where did “The Price of Luxury” come from?

My head.

How Dickensian is it?
Not very.