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
Cocaine. She'd woken up smelling the stains of the previous night, now she was already in a fit.
Where were they? The boys who had been so loud, all gone now. The wooden floors reminded her of dust.
They had all taken turns shouting their names into the big black void, the edges of it shining on the wall. They had laughed at first, then they had stopped laughing. Then they had disappeared.
A window she opened made a noise like a pregnant cat. The air struck against her face. The leaves gently thrown off the trees. She thought: Cocaine.