PUCK ME ON ICE
“But this one feels empty. It seems like you had no real feeling behind it—you just wanted to draw something and that was it.”
“Elaborate,” he says, sitting on the bed beside me. The closeness makes me shift uncomfortably.
“When you present a piece as an artist, you need people to feel something. They should sense the thought process, the emotion, the meaning behind even a simple tree. It should almost come to life on the page—”
“Okay, this makes no sense. It’s just a drawing,” he cuts in.
I roll my eyes, ready to respond, when a notification lights up my phone. My stomach drops the second I open the email. My art has been rejected—for the tenth time.