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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Rainswept Refuge
I loved rain in the early eighties. In heavy rain, everything stopped on a council estate. Nobody went out, not even in cars. No-one, but me. My skinny bruised knees waded through thick downpours. The drumbeat of raindrops pounded their rhythm on my nit-itchy scalp, drowning out any other noises.
Such peaceful isolation. I wondered free. No kids at the park, and not even the travellers came out of their caravans to yell or set their dogs on me. Nobody followed me out into the rain. Nobody could hurt me out there. I sure loved rain in the early eighties.