RIP Morley Blockbuster 1985–2019, Gone But Never Forgotten

Amy Budrikis writes short stories for the fun of it, and is part of an oddball writers group in Perth. By day she works as a research assistant on Aboriginal languages and music, and is finishing her postgraduate degree in Linguistics. She has been published in Once: A Selection of Short Short Stories (Night Parrot Press). "RIP Morley Blockbuster 1985 - 2019, Gone But Never Forgotten" is part of Short Édition's series, The Current.

They closed the last Blockbuster in Australia in March and a week later my husband died. The coroner said heart failure and I knew she was right – my husband loved that place. He went there every week. After his funeral I wanted to honor his love of Blockbuster so I pushed the old Monaro out of the driveway into the swamp across the road and set up a Blockbuster Video Rental in our garage. We didn't have any videos so I wrote the names of every movie I could find off IMDb on post-it notes and stuck them on the walls. The garage looked like a pinata. My son said I was crazy. Now he works at the

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