Jockey
The A-to-Z Challenge continues on the blog. 100-word flash fiction stories written in a less than a day. A few hours, actually, if you account for the fact that I have to read all the comments before I choose a prompt. Thankfully, you’re all keeping the prompts coming and giving me good ideas to choose from. Today’s prompt was suggested by debscarey. Thanks, Debs! This is a story for 80s music lovers…
JOCKEY
I should have suspected something was up, the way Julie kept looking at the DJ. She scowled at every song.
Julie was an 80s princess. Somewhere between Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. That’s how I’ll remember her.
The DJ played Duran Duran, “Is There Something I Should Know.” Julie frowned.
Then it was “Who Can It Be Now?” Men at Work. Meant nothing to me. Didn’t care about the music. Just wanted to dance. But Julie was really troubled.
When he played Cutting Crew, she was gone. So was he.
I found her in the alley.
She died in my arms.
Tomorrow is K-day, so I need letter K prompts. What have you got for me? 🙂
Nice! I love my 80s music and liked the references (although I probably won’t quite think of the Cutting Crew song the same way again – and I always liked that one). Clever use of the prompt word too.
To help keep the macabre theme going…k is for kill.
Sorry for ruining that song for you, AJ, but I’m glad you liked the story. 🙂
Woohoo for my second one! 😀 And I almost believed you might go the Jeremiah bullfrog route! Nice divert and suitably twisted ending.
Kindergarden, kaleidoscope, kindness.
A-Zing this year at:
FictionCanBeFun
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DebsDespatches
I almost passed over it, Debs–what could I write about a horse racer? But then I remembered there’s more than one kind of “jockey” and it kind of came together after that. Thanks! And thanks for the non-murderous prompts. 😉
Not sure whether to LOL or groan =)
K is for Killer flash stories! Kill them with Kindness. Killing fields. Killing me softly with his song. Killer tomatoes. Do you sense a trend here?
Dena
https://denapawling.blogspot.com/
Oh, right. The poor boy’s girlfriend’s just been murdered by a homicidal DJ, and you don’t know whether to LOL or groan?! Hmm. That explains your prompt suggestions, Dena… 😉 Seriously, though, I’m glad you enjoyed it. And thanks for the ideas.
Well, that had an unexpected ending. Good job.
Thank you, Julie! 😀
I’m honest, I don’t get this one at all. Don’t know these songs, I suppose.
I love sports, so I suggest Kick-off.
I was hoping that the songs would enhance the story, but you might still be able to get what’s going on without knowing them. Oh well. There’s always YouTube if you’re interested. Here are the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0hogZyRyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECVGN4Bsgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOwHzCHfgA
Thanks for the suggestion, OneOfUs! 🙂