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.

1. 
   Chris Clarke 2008 03 30 at 10:28:39 pm

   “bades me stay.”

   Shudder.

   Ah, youth.

2. 
   black dog barking 2008 03 31 at 7:14:44 am

   Shudder.

   Change it. It’s not carved in stone.

3. 
   Rachel Shaw 2008 03 31 at 9:39:22 am

   It’s not carved in stone.

   *laughs*

4. 
   Chris Clarke 2008 03 31 at 10:33:54 am

   

   (Stolen.)

5. 
   R. Mildred 2008 03 31 at 4:40:01 pm

   Why is there a small stork at the bottom of the page? Were you pregnant?

   Also; “oblong eccentricities”?

6. 
   Chris Clarke 2008 03 31 at 10:23:51 pm

   Were you pregnant?

   Not that i <u>know</u> of.

7. 
   Charles 2008 04 02 at 9:10:21 am

   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.