Today in history

Wonder who got the first paper cut ever?

It would require machine-cut paper, wouldn't it? Handmade paper has a soft, thin edge. Old books have an uneven or deckled edge top and bottom, and the outer edge was folded over and had to be cut with a paper knife, and I can't imagine that a paper knife could cut evenly enough to make a cutting edge out of the paper. Newsprint won't cut.

Sometime in the past, oh, hundred and fifty years, someone discovered for the first time that, whoa, paper could cut you. I'd like to know when and who.

New SGA story: Poltergeist

For mutecornett, in exchange for three beautiful icons (which I didn't dare let myself upload until I had her smutlet up!):

Poltergeist
McKay/Sheppard -- NC-17 -- 520 words
"Sleep to sex in under ten seconds. Maybe I'm not sorry I woke you after all."

Beta thanks to astolat and cesperanza.

(I also updated the website with another SGA smutlet first published on merrymakings: Knowing.)