DECEMBER 6 2013: NOSTALGIA
Gill James
Remembering Trivia
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“I’ve got some bad
news,” said Dad. We were sitting in his old Ford Popular outside the Wesley
Methodist church hall. He’d picked me up from Guides.
My
heart started thumping and my mouth went dry. Had something happened to Mum? Or
Grandma? Or Gran?
“What?”
“President
Kennedy’s been shot.”
Was
that it? Everybody I knew was all right?
“Shot?”
“Yes.
He’s dead.”
“Oh.”
He’d
seemed a nice man to me. Young as well. His wife was very glamorous. Fancy
getting shot. But America was like that, wasn’t it?
“Do
you want to get some chips?”
“Yes
please. With batters.”
About
the Author
Gill James writes fiction for
children, young adults and grown-up adults, and teaches Creative Writing in
Higher Education. Recently she has developed a keen interest in flash fiction.
She is fascinated by how we always remember exactly what we were doing when big
news breaks and she wrote Remembering
Trivia to celebrate the release of her friend Debz-Hobbs Wyatt’s While No
One Was Watching that has J.F. Kennedy’s assassination as the setting.
