Quick fragments

[green_dreams]

Something I saw (thought I saw?) on New Year's Eve:

I was mailing off the Marcon pre-reg, and there was a man at the post office whose hand looked damaged. Nothing quite so emphatic as a blister or a burn, but definitely raw. He took his letter over to the mailbox. And instead of peeling the stamps (Canada Post sells sticker-stamps now), he rubbed them across the back of his hand and stuck them on.

I don't know if I mis-saw what happened--I'm very willing to assume I did--but the image of him wetting the stamps with fluid seeping from the back of his hand has rather stuck with me.

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The more people I make a piece of art accessible too, the less likely I am to notice it sucks before it's too late. Why?

Comments

[dolston.livejournal.com]

That is a really neat image. Must find a way to work that into a story...

Part two, not sure. I blame it on stress and the desire to get stuff out at a deadline.

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

Because the more widely accepted something is, the more mainstream it becomes. Obscurity = good, popular = crap.