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I have the utmost respect for anyone that can take their natural (legal) talent, go to a park and turn it into beer/food money in an hour or two. When I met my wife she was substitute teaching occasionally and to make ends meet she would do pencil portraits in the park. She would always wear a floppy hat and a colorful long skirt. Back then (1975) she would have been referred to as a hippy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie :-) as opposed to a hipster. I remember sitting in her apartment and watching her gleefully straighten and count a pile of small bills. Great times!

[MartinCron]

I work just up the street from Seattle's Pike Place Market where I see talented street performers of all kinds. Guitarists, sax players, one guy with a big parrot, magicians, everything. I don't see the idea of writing a super-short story as any different.

Now I'm surprised I haven't seen it yet.