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!
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A Day in the Eighties
A day in the eighties? In the eighties I was a kid. I had a good childhood but I was bullied and have felt like trash ever since. Eighty years old is alien to me. I’ll be lucky to make it through my forties. I don’t even think I want to be eighty. I hate being old. I never thought I’d live to see forty, let alone eighty. Eighty degrees is too hot. Eighty lonely days. More like years. See above. Eighty broken hearts. Eighty knives stabbing me in the back. Eighty bullets in my head. Yeah. I got nothin.