Hindsight 2020
HINDSIGHT 2020 – TONI JAY
Don’t forget your mask! Your mask! You cant go outside without your mask! My mothers shrill voice tore through the haze of daydreams floating around my head. I snapped back into reality. Lowered my hand into my right back pocket and pulled out a thin slice of plastic that was intended to resemble a bunny rabbit, looped the cheap elastic strings over my ears and eased myself onto the sidewalk. HALLOWEEN was supposed to be a time when kids dressed up like their childhood nightmares, favourite comic book heroes or unrealistic Disney characters. But that’s all over now. When the Great Plague came it took away all that. Now I’m stuck holding my little sister’s hand while she shuffles along quietly six feet behind the other kids waiting to grab a hermetic ziploc bag of peanut free mars bars from the laminated and well polished kiosk in the lobby of our apartment building.
