3/6/2022 0 Comments Window ShoppingWindow Shopping
Hannah Anderson I signed up for the subscription. It is free on Facebook. But nothing in life is truly free. ‘Free’ implies that it doesn’t cost anything, right? Everything cost something. Energy. Resources. Time. Emotions. Investment. Thinking. If it doesn’t cost money, it costs something else. So, I signed up for a “free” subscription to Facebook’s online dating. Made my “About Me” tab. Time and thought spent. Filled out the ‘What I am looking for’. Talk. Friends. Casual. Nothing long term. Nothing serious. Nothing intimate. See the problem yet? All the guys like my profile. It was gratifying to my vanity. And not. Flipping through their profiles. Online dating. Just pictures in a catalogue. Circling what I wanted, but would never buy. Do you ever do that? I did. When I was 8. We got that Oriental Trading Company catalog. I would go through with a ballpoint pen and circle everything I wanted. I had taste then. I knew to avoid all the cheesy, lame crap. All the guys who liked my profile, I flipped through like pages in the Facebook dating catalogue. Used my ‘ball point pen’ to ‘circle’ what I liked. Ignored what I didn’t. One guy realized I wasn’t that kinda peep. He kindly informed me what ‘casual’ meant. I knew. But I was stubborn. Wanted to prove a point. I was wrong. I played dumb. I played naive. I let him think I really was that innocent. I was just window shopping.
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AuthorThese are just short pieces I wrote during my time in a Short Story class. During Fall 2021, I was exposed to several different approaches to writing. Within the above pieces, I started experimenting more with flash fiction. I stopped aiming to write a "traditional" story and decided to let the words spill upon the page how they so chose. There is still so much to learn, fine tune, and develop, but here is start of my experimentation. |