LNH/NTB/REPOST: Simon Velcro, revised edition

[Tom Russell]

Adrian James McClure wrote:
> Given that this is a story you wrote before 2001, I'm shocked that it
> was actually good, even if you did revise it.  I vaguely remember
> having read the original version of this story at some point, but the
> only thing I remember apart from the introduction of SWAAL was the fact
> that Catalyst Lass was in it, and you now changed her to Opera Chick.
> It's interesting that after we all just had a long discussion that
> touched on Catalyst Lass, and you mentioned how many story ideas you
> had, that you changed her to someone else in the first story you post
> afterwards. :)

That's because I completely mis-wrote Catalyst Lass in that story. :-)

I really hated the story for a long time after I had written it, and
only reread it recently because of a plug that Josh Hartung gave it.
And, upon re-reading it, I really dug it.

I think that's because at the time I wrote it, I wasn't as big on the
kind of really random humour that comes into play both in SIMON VELCRO
and my recent Master Blaster specials.  Now, the more surreal and
haphazard, the better!

--Tom