Terminal

Nostalgia: For Things that Never Change by Brooklyn based writer Gus Iversen. (Find his work at http://www.iloanbooks.com/) Gus utilizes “found photos” and creates short sketches (flash fiction) for each separate photo/page. He uses time (some pieces are set in 1744, or 1361) in a seemingly random fashion, and yet is it? How does time or a date inform our conscious life? Highly creative and thought provoking. Well done, Gus! Lately I have been exploring more short, short pieces. So, sometimes, within our ‘ten minute per prompt’ limit, I have time to blast off one, two, or even three different pieces. That is what happened with these two fictional sketches from a photograph in New Yorker magazine, April 19: Terminal: Take One The attic stored her trunk,with endless photographs, every job she’d shot since the early 80s, each publication catelogued. “I want to leave this all to you,” she said. The sun streamed onto her head, lighting it like a Mexican postcard of Christ. One glance and you’d never know it was terminal. Terminal: Take Two “We could shoot you like this,” she said, pointing to the Balanchine book. Photos from my younger days. Leaping. Twirling. Defecting. It seemed a mirage now. “Anything but the sausage,” I said. I dodged as she snorted, her nose flew across the room in a flourish. ************************************************************************ I also wanted to mention that gracious editor Joseph Quintela selected “Gone Before Dawn” for his Issue #20, posted 4/25 at Short, Fast, and Deadly. (http://www.shortfastanddeadly.com/) Thanks, again, to Joseph and to those editors who support writers on the new frontier. (He is also a grand writer, too). Enjoy the season! Get outdoors at least once (and no- the walk from car to building does not count!) per day. Focus on gratitude. Count your blessings. And, oh yeah: thanks for reading.]]>