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Below the fold, a scan of the first story I ever sold, a piece I wrote under the title “Carving The Pelican.”
I sold it to the Japanese magazine Jidaijin for a hundred bucks.
They paid promptly, printed it in English and Japanese, misspelled my name three times in three different ways, and changed the title to “Incomoplete [sic] Sculpture of Pelican.”
I changed it back when I printed it in Terrain a year or so later, in February 1993.
Large jpg below the fold. Terry Karney offers a short observation on the piece here.
Posted by: Chris Clarke
Note: A database glitch in 2008 ate a bunch of archived comments. Don't be offended if yours isn't here, or confused if the conversation seems disjointed. Thanks!
“bades me stay.”
Shudder.
Ah, youth.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 30
Shudder.
Change it. It’s not carved in stone.
By: By black dog barking on 2008 03 31
It’s not carved in stone.
*laughs*
By: By Rachel Shaw on 2008 03 31
(Stolen.)
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 31
Why is there a small stork at the bottom of the page? Were you pregnant?
Also; “oblong eccentricities”?
By: By R. Mildred on 2008 03 31
Were you pregnant?
Not that i <u>know</u> of.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 03 31
In September 1992, we spent a marvelous day at Point Reyes. We watched the pelicans swooping and fishing in bay. I loved the suddenness of their splooshes into the water.
By: By Charles on 2008 04 02
