This was my first night staying in a hostel. Sitting in that room anchored me from drifting in the currents of the city’s streets. I was cut away from eyes and bodies that could see and touch what I could not hide. Staring out the window, smoking a splif, and eating a burrito, I was happy to, if just for a night, watch the world instead of it watching me. I got reborn taking a shower. The hot water was …
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Plots always intimidated me. Does the character drive the plot or reverse? If so, what happens next? You spend enough time with them and they’ll show you. From as far as I could remember, Moms always said, “You know, I bet the stories about our family would make a good book. One day…” she’d say. There was the time pops tried to steal electricity from our next-door neighbors. Our lights had been out for a year. Mr. Edwards discovered an …
Record/Play is a sci-fi love story described as “war, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend time and space.” It’s a short feature full of spaced out emotional beats and not much dialogue besides a woman’s voice from Bosnia 2-10-1993. The first frame tightly wraps around old cassette tapes with handwritten labels: Venezuela 4-14-86, Cameroon 1987, Portugal 8-14-87…cut to a small suite case full of cassette tapes on a dinner table. A man studies the Bosnia tape before putting it into …
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