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It's interesting having an autoimmune condition that actualizes metaphor and trope. Need a thicker skin? Try scleroderma! Scars where never wound was made? Check. And western medicine's best guess as to the trigger of scleroderma? A traumatic physical or emotional event.
Also interesting, I had written characters whose skin is marked by some supernatural occurrence, in one case very like the way the markings on my skin at the onset of the sclero presented, years before the sclero developed. One of them, in fact, in the story "A Thousand Wings of Luck" coming out in the Subversion anthology. The first draft of that story was written in 1995 at Clarion West, six years before the sclero onset. And while the story was revised a great deal over time, that particular thing, the skin marking, is original to the first version.
Language is the food of the brain. Or something.
But it's interesting, isn't it?
Also interesting, I had written characters whose skin is marked by some supernatural occurrence, in one case very like the way the markings on my skin at the onset of the sclero presented, years before the sclero developed. One of them, in fact, in the story "A Thousand Wings of Luck" coming out in the Subversion anthology. The first draft of that story was written in 1995 at Clarion West, six years before the sclero onset. And while the story was revised a great deal over time, that particular thing, the skin marking, is original to the first version.
Language is the food of the brain. Or something.
But it's interesting, isn't it?
