Miss Tinker is Malverde’s town historian
She has cobwebs for hair and lives a life of soundproof comfort
Her dusty fingers wrote “A History of the Malverde Silent Movie Company”
The book is like the image of an old mirror taking back smiles
Unrequited love was a common theme for a Malverde movie
Only mute actors were given contracts
They moved across the frames as if the light was welcoming them home
Films were bankrolled by two silent partners, Lone Wolf Dry-Stream and Roger Butter
They made a killing on cotton and butter during the war
Checks for new projects were written on foam rubber
They were sent from distant offices and they floated endlessly through the vacuum of time and space
When the theater lights went down on a Malverde silent film, the darkness replaced the people in the seats and they were frozen in mid-chew, eating popcorn that tasted like buttered cotton
During those days, Malverde was a town of shadows without sound and the people went about their business as if no one was really there
The town is getting more and more interesting. I love the image of the mirror that takes back smiles.
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Totally accessible and engrossing, Duke. An interesting and unsentimental take on what it was like. It’s your lacvk of saccharine and cute that i admire the most.
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Love it Duke . It simply reminds me and emphasizes the beauty of times gone by , our old school ways, and what it used to be .
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This reads like an echo that wasn’t there, it’s ethereal and elusive and beautifully sculpted. It’s like dusty memories of the past, how things once were. I love it.
I did try to comment before but it didn’t go through, so my apologies if it went to the trash file & you now have two. x
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Miss Tinker, historian of a town named after a ‘narco saint’.
This one has that sand in the eyes cynicism that I love.
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