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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Loma Prieta
The bubble of soft understanding goes on beyond that day in the 80s when the earth shook us off her mighty mantle like a mangy cur flinging itchy fleas out of her fur, snapping at our preciousness, stomping us into her hard ground, bridges flattening, coffee houses collapsing, bricks dropping away from on high. Oh, I remember the rumbling of the window frames, not from trucks passing by in the streets but magma flowing down deep, through cracks set by city planners of yore and misunderstandings of place and control gone to our human heads like something predestined yet forgotten.