precursory questions
1. how many home videos did you keep?
2. how many seeped into adulthood, vhs tape wrinkled and blinking back at you the screen a reflection, skipping with white?
hey, have you ever considered the word “rewind” may drop from the next generation’s lexicon?
Further Reading
Cool Uncle
by Emmett Knowlton
This story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. All summer long Gideon’s nephews had been terrorizing him, waking him with wet willies, reminding him what a loser he’d become. “Do a flip!” they shouted at him in the mornings as he watched them by the pool. “Do some push-ups!” they barked whenever he came back […]
While my Wife Is in the Hospital Recovering from a Stroke
by Richard-Yves Sitoski
There’s nothing to eat but fruit from baskets sent by friends // and I couldn’t care less about the fate of the world.
The Past by Henryk Cierniak
(Translated from Polish by John Guzlowski)
The house was nothing just a building site, thirteen years ago Remember it? It’s still nothing my son is sixteen How can I forget? He’s nothing but an ordinary boy actually a bit troublesome instead of putting up insulation he and his friends go to the village he walks like he’s some kind of god […]
