Summer Of Anthology

by NEWT RANDALL

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Summer Of Anthology
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Newt R. Randall
Dedicated to Delaney, my beloved, who inspired this whole thing
i didn't miss the cold weather i just missed you
- glass beach
constructive criticism for summer camps and babies
The fact that summer camps had no wifi was a grave injustice, in Parker’s opinion. He reloaded his messages, reloaded his messages, reloaded his messages. Nothing. He was holding out for Riley to have somehow found a signal all the way down at Lake Soeka. Whatever. He was pretty sure the Buck Scouts took their phones anyway. 

Parker hated having a summer birthday. Yeah school was out or whatever, but what did that really do? Let you have a weekday birthday party? What was the point of even having a party without your best friend there anyways. Parker didn’t even want one that bad so who cares. Summer was stupid and it was too hot and Riley was busy learning how to tie knots or something. Whatever. Who cares. Parker didn’t. 

He should try to send Riley a message. In case he had wifi. And had his phone. Parker pocketed his phone and went over to his computer, opening his and Riley’s chat. He preferred using the computer’s braille keyboard over voice to text. 

parker: hey
parker: i know u probably arent seeing these but like
parker: im bored
parker: so im just gonna spam u so ur phone goes crazy once u have wifi
parker: thats what u get for going to camp on my birthday
parker: pretty cringe of u tbh
parker: once its ur birthday im gonna invent winter camp and go there
parker: gonna live in the snow for 2 months to spite u
parker: ha
This was stupid. He should just go to bed. Parker spun around in his chair and flopped forward onto his mattress. He hated everything right now. He hated that he decided to be born in summer. How was baby Parker supposed to know that his best friend would be a stupid ourdoorsman who thinks it’s fun to spend 2 months in the woods getting bitten by bugs. He thought baby Parker should have been informed about this before he decided to exit the womb. But whatever. He didn’t care.

parker: hey
parker: i know u probably arent seeing these but like
parker: im bored
parker: so im just gonna spam u so ur phone goes crazy once u have wifi
parker: thats what u get for going to camp on my birthday
parker: pretty cringe of u tbh
parker: once its ur birthday im gonna invent winter camp and go there
parker: gonna live in the snow for 2 months to spite u
parker: ha
This was stupid. He should just go to bed. Parker spun around in his chair and flopped forward onto his mattress. He hated everything right now. He hated that he decided to be born in summer. How was baby Parker supposed to know that his best friend would be a stupid ourdoorsman who thinks it’s fun to spend 2 months in the woods getting bitten by bugs. He thought baby Parker should have been informed about this before he decided to exit the womb. But whatever. He didn’t care.
cold weather by glass beach
I want to think you did that because you feel the same, but I
know deep down that you didn’t
I have all these hints for you to miss
and I want to feel your hand in mine, the
emptiness there leaves me cold
even with the summer weather
and I can’t sleep because I
stay up late to scroll through our conversations and just
think about all the moments that we missed
I need you
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