Caitlin McGinley

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“The Vintage Curator” by Caitlin McGinley

Submitted to Contest #14

 My memories of the day after my 16th birthday present as slides on a vintage stylish slide projector. Each moment reduced to isolated fragments of a story represented on individual 35 mml picture slides. I see them every year, on the anniversary of this event when I must exhume the slides from their prism-shaped storage box. Mechanically, I flip the projector’s toggle switches, watching and waiting for the telltale thrum of the fan. Watching and waiting for illumination. Each year, it is the same. The incandescent bulb broadcasts e...

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Caitlin McGinley is a former teacher who now writes full time. She lives in Philadelphia, PA with her family.