Pissed off with Elfwood.

[den]

Two of my stories must be removed because they contain "Graphic obscenities."

This is ME they are talking about!

And these are the stories.

Stone Width Inn and The Smith

Ok. Tell me where the graphic obscenity is in there? The only, only thing I can see is that somone might object to something that is in common use in Australia every day, used by everyone and broadcast on TV in advertisments. If I have to change my style so that I can't write as an Aussie then I will delet my entire story gallery.

Comments

Checked the first story for obscenities ...

[baxil.livejournal.com]

... and I have come to the conclusion that it is one of the following highly graphic phrases which caught the review board's attention:

• "Camp bread."
  
• "Slipstream."
  
• ... Or the highly volatile and offensive term "turves."
  

Seriously. WTF? I am glad to hear that they're not going to be removing the stories after all; however, I agree with an earlier poster that you need to write a letter in response politely requesting that the "graphic obscenities" in question be pointed out to you -- or that, in the future, they at least expand their form letters a little bit so that there's room to explain what caused the story to get cut.

I'd just like to end this by saying that I will, for no good reason, now forever associate the phrase "graphic obscenity" with the word "turves." What the heck is a turve, anyway?

Turves

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Plural of turf.

OED: A slab pared from the surface with grass and herbage growing on it.

Re: Turves

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

EURGH! Obscene!