Defective Candle

Are you looking for a one-of-a-kind gift? Something to give that person in your life who already has everything? And something that may appreciate in value over time? Look no further than the Defective Candle. Sometimes, when it’s the holiday season and amateur candlemakers have to make hundreds and hundreds of candles with no break in an increasing state of sleep-deprivation and wax fume-intoxication, mistakes are made. And so it was with this candle, whose metal wick-holder collapsed into the molten wax, dragging the wick down with it like a captain who refuses to abandon his ship as it slips beneath the white, waxy waves. As a literate person with access to the internet, you’re probably familiar with the famous “Inverted Jenny” U.S. postage stamp depicting an upside-down airplane. While planes can, in fact, fly upside-down, this particular stamp was a printing defect. Because so few were released before the postal service realized its error and the postmaster general executed the dr