Zac Kline is a playwright, filmmaker and poet based in New York City. His plays have been produced in London, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in venues ranging from The Royal Theatre Stratford East to an island in the Hudson River. His films have screened across the United States and his poems have been published in journals and zines. www.zackline.net "1991, 1992" is in Short Circuit #09, Short Édition's quarterly review.

Purple Lakers cap, just back, from a family trip to Los Angeles. Or maybe, we had been to the moon. We didn't play much together back then. Like we are, here, in this photograph. the two of us standing on the grass, in front of our row house. You, sister, an oversized purple jacket, white turtleneck, checkered black + white pants blonde, and curly back then, this must have been 1991, or 1992. Black buttons white shirt, little boy, big sister, smiles looking at the camera, children caught in a photo. You complain Dad has stopped taking photographs. This might have been a great number of monster

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