There is still one thing to enjoy: Reading those forty year old newspapers.
Mostly I watch the colorful pictures in the Ads section, with bins full of perfect fruits or copious meat and cheese selections. Adorable!
In reminiscence of those better times I sometimes read the text, like the article about stray shopping carts creating dents in vehicles!
Might have been a reasonable concern, those days when supermarkets still were selling, there where places to go to with a car and your kids actually had a future.
If they only had thought of climate change as a reasonable concern too.
(100 words, apologies for the pessimistic outlook to our worlds future, but you fictioneers will agree that there is no point in arguing with the emotions a picture creates. Thanks to you for the warm welcome and feedback)
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super Geschichte – Englisch wie vom Muttersprachler. Pessimistisch? Das ist doch leider Realität.
Liebe Grüße
Carmen
Excellent. Humanity focusing on the wrong things – again.
Very nice! I actually read old, old newspapers just to see what it was like back then. I hope our future generations never has to read what a supermarket use to be like… Very nice story!
Lots of environmental apocalyptics. I llike the nostalgic feel, looking back with fondness to better times, then the rush back to the present with bitter regret. Potent.
Dear Ingmar,
The end is near. Heard it here first. Well done.
Aloha,
Doug
Dear Ingmar,
Forty year old newspaper? Your story has a wonderfully bleak feel to it and perhaps more truth to it than we want to admit.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Ingmar, so few people get newspapers these days that just finding old newspapers might be a treat, let along what they talk about and show. Nicely gloomy!
janet
Depressingly excellent.
EinElefant loved it.
This is not fiction it’s profecy.. well formulated
Well, you just get better and better… maybe you should try Spanish for a challenge. This is fabulous!
Believe me, youdo not want to read my Spanish stories 🙂 Thanks!
Ha! You mad me laugh out loud.