Mon Petite Vignettes: My Tiny Little Stories

By Mark Doyle Meyer

Mon Petite Vignettes is a memoir from the TV generation, a generation first to experience the world through electronic sight and sound. The TV shaped a vision of the world about them, ever simplifying, forever distilling to the shortest and most direct. Here is a collection of sixty-eight brief, literate stories, vignettes, that individually define a portion of a life lived, and collectively, define the one who lived it. "I'm sitting on the floor watching "snow" - that electronic jumble and hiss that appeared on the television screen when changing from one channel to another. I'm watching in anticipation of the Indian, the American Indian. I know if I wait long enough he'll appear. The hiss and jumble will stop, and like magic he'll show up at the top of the screen. He's a chief, with a feather-filled headdress. There's other stuff on the screen too: numbers, lines, circles, a bulls-eye. All will go in and out of focus and then disappear to be followed by TV, real TV, with things happening, people talking, cowboys riding horses, and many, many more Indians. There are black and white images of a man called "Mr. Green Jeans" wearing colorless clothes, a club of kids wearing mouse ears, and lots and lots of cartoons. I will follow these early years with several more watching televised story after story offered up in short bursts where questions are answered and problems get solved, leaving the meaning of life spread before me in brief, digestible bits. How can I not look back on my life in vignettes, in tiny little stories?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692699368
• ISBN13: 9780692699362
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Mark Doyle Meyer
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"