Comments on: INKED • by Aaron Polson http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/ The once a day flash fiction magazine. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:12:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jennifer walmsley http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/comment-page-1/#comment-16234 jennifer walmsley Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:24:24 +0000 http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/#comment-16234 A great, weird story from start to finish. For me, I enjoy flash stories that don't have a definite ending but leaves this reader wondering. A great, weird story from start to finish.

For me, I enjoy flash stories that don’t have a definite ending but leaves this reader wondering.

]]> By: Roberta SchulbergGoro http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/comment-page-1/#comment-16226 Roberta SchulbergGoro Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:07:20 +0000 http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/#comment-16226 J.C. - I think I just remembered the whatchama-callit. Wasn't it Mike Sennet film? J.C. – I think I just remembered the whatchama-callit. Wasn’t it Mike Sennet film?

]]> By: Roberta SchulbergGoro http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/comment-page-1/#comment-16225 Roberta SchulbergGoro Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:00:57 +0000 http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/#comment-16225 J.C. - I think you found the perfect ending for this smorgasbord of absurdities. Although it doesn't answer the other questions, it rounds it out the string of "what-in-the-worlds?" with a funny flurry and an "I'm getting out of here!" This would make a good short whatchama-callit silent film with sound. J.C. – I think you found the perfect ending for this smorgasbord of absurdities. Although it doesn’t answer the other questions, it rounds it out the string of “what-in-the-worlds?” with a funny flurry and an “I’m getting out of here!”
This would make a good short whatchama-callit silent film with sound.

]]> By: J.C. Towler http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/comment-page-1/#comment-16221 J.C. Towler Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:42:41 +0000 http://www.everydayfiction.com/inked-by-aaron-polson/#comment-16221 At the risk of raising hackles, I have to wonder what, exactly, is supposed to happen "next." The man gets a tatoo to remind him of the woman he killed in a car wreck (killed, maimed, injured, take your pick). His internal suffering is so acute that his prosthetic leg feels pain and bleeds. He gets his tatoo and leaves. That's the story. While the story is told through Hector's POV, I don't think Hector is the story. It's this guy and the unusual thing going on with his leg. After he gets his tatoo, it is over. Could we follow him out the door and see what happens next? Sure. We could see how this whole experience makes Hector into a devout Christian--he's seen a miracle!--and he closes up the tatoo parlor and becomes a monk. Heck, I don't know, it could go anywhere. But you could stretch any story that doesn't end with the main character pushing up daisies. The story is about this moment, this strange, supernatural moment and then it's over. It's flash fiction. Sometimes that's all you get. --John At the risk of raising hackles, I have to wonder what, exactly, is supposed to happen “next.”

The man gets a tatoo to remind him of the woman he killed in a car wreck (killed, maimed, injured, take your pick). His internal suffering is so acute that his prosthetic leg feels pain and bleeds. He gets his tatoo and leaves. That’s the story. While the story is told through Hector’s POV, I don’t think Hector is the story. It’s this guy and the unusual thing going on with his leg. After he gets his tatoo, it is over.

Could we follow him out the door and see what happens next? Sure. We could see how this whole experience makes Hector into a devout Christian–he’s seen a miracle!–and he closes up the tatoo parlor and becomes a monk. Heck, I don’t know, it could go anywhere. But you could stretch any story that doesn’t end with the main character pushing up daisies. The story is about this moment, this strange, supernatural moment and then it’s over. It’s flash fiction. Sometimes that’s all you get.

–John

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