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THE OKLAHOMA
REVIEW
Volume 8 | Issue 1 | Spring 2007 |
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Print version Janet Butler Death in the Mountains LeAnna Covalt A Few Days after Your Fiftieth Birthday Pagosa Springs Noel
Sloboda
Surfaces Cuts Uncruel Salesman of the Quarter tolbert ghosts laughter Anne Whitehouse Blessings IX Curses II |
Roger Jones
Coming Attractions, 1960
My
sister and I ride swings at the front
of the drive-in movie theater. Over us, the screen rises like a galleon sail. Twilight swells and deepens. The swings squeak-squawk in near-dark. Then it’s night. Film-trailers erupt on the screen: Coming Attractions! Come on back to the snack bar! (A speaker babbles to itself on its metal post.) From across an open space, a man -- no face, a black profile with a bright red coal in the center -- floats towards us. We smell cigarette smoke and whiskey. He says nothing, but we know: it’s time to go back to the car, where our parents wait. The swings go silent. Heroes gallop toward us on the screen. |
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