W2 - Wendy to the Second Power

My particular slice of the World Fantasy Con in Austin ended (finally!) at about 10 o'clock Sunday night. I'd been invited to dinner at Iron Cactus with Charles deLint, Nina Kiriki Hoffman and others. But only, no room in Charles' rented van! So I drove my new Prius and had the Wordos contingent in it. Then after, we needed postcards! So introduced the Portland folks to the Texas grocery store H.E.B. (great mirth that it meant "Howard E. Butt"). Then, because Ellen Datlow had just gotten a tattoo* on her low back (I heard this type of tattoo is called the "tramp stamp"), she needed Aquaphor to treat that. She & I drove around several places before we found some. Kind of odd, but hey, she's bought two stories from me over the years.

*Ellen's tattoo said "DEVICE" while that of her new anthology partner Kelly Link said "SKIN". Get it? Yeeeaaahh, me neither.

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