The Hipster Handbook: Nena

by Nouvelle Bardot

Nina instinctively grabbed the discarded object and jammed it quickly into her banana yellow tote bag, and stood up casually, the record still in her hand. She had become quite a kleptomaniac over the course of the summer, or in all honestly, throughout the course of her life, and had recently perfected it to an art.

She decided to purchase the record, it was only twenty five cents, quite a steal seeing as though the record case was merely reduced to pulp, the record itself was in beautiful condition. Although, these days, all people wanted were covers. It made Nena sick to go into someone’s apartment and see old records behind frames. She could understand if they were trying to be ironic, but Nena liked seeing records in motion. That’s how she appreciated them.

The man behind the counter was very large, his bottom hung limply over the stool he sat on. His full beard and boxy glasses reminded her faintly of Allen Ginsberg and she almost cracked a smirk in his direction.

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  1. The Hipster Handbook: Nena

    flute faerie's Buddy Icon flute faerie

    Posted 3 months ago

    I like the vivid way you describe all this. It’s really very nice.

  2. The Hipster Handbook: Nena

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 3 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Very nice job keeping the story going but dropping in a little of the character’s philosophy, the whole pet peeve about records in frames.
    LoA

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