Challenge
September 2024 Drabble Challenge: A Day in the Eighties
Using exactly 100 words, tell me a story inspired by the phrase, "A Day in the Eighties." You don't need to use the exact words, just launch into a flash fiction piece that goes wherever your imagination leads. I ask that you use standard spelling, punctuation, grammar, and prose construction to spin this yarn. Are we talking about a decade? Temperatures? Old age? You decide. Please don't tag me, I'll read all the entries and pick a winner sometime in early October. Winner gets two whole dollars!
The Roaring Twenties
The eighties? I was in my (roaring) twenties and on the cusp of life. What a splendid and precipitous time, marked by days on the beach, graduating college, a first job, big hair, shoulder pads, stirrup pants, watching MTV......
Music has been a consistent theme through my years, and the 80’s offered some of the best: Prince, Michael Jackson, Bowie, Springsteen, Madonna, Depeche Mode and so many I don’t have the words (literally) to mention.
Oh, but to return with what wisdom and experience I’ve since gleaned would be truly, undeniably, overwhelmingly……fucking horrific.....with the exception of the music, of course......