Jack Rousseau

 

 

déjà vu

 

“déjà vu.”

“what’s that?”

“you say, ‘what’s that?’ and I repeat it . . . and then something bad happens.”

something bad happens.

 

 

 

 

dial tone

 

speaking into the receiver:

“butenoughaboutmehowareyou?”

on the other end: door slam, scream, dial tone.

“areyouthere?”

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Rousseau's work has appeared in Blueprint, Fuss Magazine, The Mustache Factor, Pink-Eye Lemonade, Smashed Cat, and Weirdyear. He lives and writes somewhere north of the USA.