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    Nostalgia
    Nostalgia
    Nostalgia
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    Nostalgia

    By David R. Michael

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    Two yellowing Polaroids, snapshots of a little girl at the fair. Two different childhoods separated by the death of her father. One childhood she can't remember, ruined by the one she wants to forget. When her boyfriend's "birthday surprise" turns out to be a date at the same fair, Sharon finds herself face to face with both.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid R. Michael
    Release dateSep 14, 2010
    ISBN9781458093424
    Nostalgia
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    David R. Michael

    Most days, David Michael is a software developer and a writer. Some days, he’s a writer and a software developer. Other days, he’s an amateur photographer. Because, really, who is the same person every day?David is the designer and developer of The Journal, personal journaling software for Windows. He has also designed and developed video games, and has written two nonfiction books and numerous articles about video game development.David lives with his wife and kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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      Nostalgia - David R. Michael

      Nostalgia

      by David Michael

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2010 by David Michael.

      Published by Four Crows Landing.

      Nostalgia

      by David Michael

      1

      Udo reached down and pulled open the flaps of the box on the floor beside his chair, exposing the faces of children. Shy smiles and bored looks and gaptooth grins and oh-so-serious pouts shone out at him from yellowing Polaroids and fading inkjet prints. Udo closed his eyes, touched his left hand to his heart, and took a deep breath. He let the breath out slow and took another.

      Through the thin, metal walls of the antique Bowlus Road Chief trailer, he could hear the other carnies and ride operators and fair officials calling out to each other in the already-warm, pre-dawn gray, getting ready for the day. He felt the trailer shift as Johan leaned against the only door, keeping guard while Udo performed his morning ritual.

      When he was younger, when he had first inherited–through years of service and a bank note–both the Bowlus trailer and the reproduction Dentzel carousel from his retiring mentor, Pytr, Udo had thought the little trailer the perfect size. A small, portable house for a small, portable life. Thirty-five years later, though, and more than thirty-five pounds heavier, he had begun wishing for something newer and bigger than his vintage 1936 trailer. Something designed for one of the newer, bigger Americans of the 21st century that he had become. Maybe it was time to follow his mentor’s example and sell out to Johan.

      Maybe. But not yet.

      Eyes still closed, Udo reached deep down into the box with his left hand, pushing through the layers of photographs until his fingers brushed the cardboard bottom of the box. Gripping as many of the photos as he could, he pulled his hand back out–slowly, so as not to scatter photos all over the narrow floor of the trailer. He placed

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