Well, all right. I suppose Rochelle’s prompt for this week is really showing us New Year’s Eve fireworks. But what if something totally different was happening??
Here’s my 100 Friday words, anyhow, plus a thirty-three word bonus; some situations just refuse to make sense with only a hundred words. Let me know what you think of it!
Visiting
I’m a practical man. I don’t bother with those stories, Elvis Kidnaps Bigfoot’s Alien Baby. I was just heading home.
Then there’s fireworks popping up all along the highway. Only not fireworks. No boom, and they just hung up there glowing, not going out like fireworks do. One of them drifted right up to my car and started talking.
We’re busy here, I told him. It. Whatever. Can’t just gawk at you folks, however far off you came from. He took it okay. Drifted back to the others. They put their heads, so to speak, together.
Tell you what, he said. Suppose you people come visit us? He doesn’t have what you’d call a face, but I swear he was grinning.
It’s kind of interesting here on their planet. Different. Met Bigfoot yesterday.
A Number of Things 
Oh I laughed and laughed….so well-written too!
Thank you so much! Glad it amused you.
Ha ha! 🙂 The sign of an intrepid space traveler: indifference at the bizarre. Well done!
Clearly nothing in or beyond the world can knock him off balance. (Even if, maybe, it should.) Thank you!
met big foot yesterday was my fav! good job. 🙂
Thank you so much! It took a couple of tries to find that ending.
the couple tries were worth it. i laughed out loud and was shushed…am at the library. 🙂
You just never know how your ordinary day can change!
How right you are! 😀
Nice one! I love the twists you give to the endings.
Thanks, Ziggy! It’s just my twisty mind, I suppose.
And I hear Joe Walsh singing, “I’m just an ordinary, average guy.” Well done, Sharon!
Thank you thank you, Rochelle! I think our narrator really believes he’s ordinary. (Maybe he is – do you think so? 🙂 )
Really very funny, its got me in stitches!
I’m so glad, Gilly 😉 The strange thing is that I didn’t plan to write a funny story when I first came up with the situation and then the basic plot…but when I started writing, the narrator’s voice just came out that way!
“Elvis kidnaps Bigfoot’s Alien Baby” –my favorite line. I laughed outloud. Enjoyed your humor.
Thank you! I think that headline was the turning point into writing this one funny – it started out as a serious tale. (I should have taken the Elvis headline out to get down to 100 words, but how could I give it up?)
I’m so glad you didn’t take it out. It’s priceless.
I’m so glad you didn’t take it out. It’s priceless.
What fun, Sharon! Love those Elvis (and similar) headlines. They liven my time in the lines at the grocery stores. 🙂
They are great, in their own weird way 🙂 Glad you like it!
That was great. Did he go against his will and now happy about it?
Thanks! I think they just scooped up pretty much all of us, without really asking whether we wanted to go or not. (They probably were kind of irritated at his brushoff.) Anyway, he seems to be enjoying himself seeing the sights.
I’ve always wanted to meet bigfoot. Very funny story
And now you know how to get the chance! Thank you.
That was pretty damn clever… very sweet in a way.
Thanks, Ted!
you just never know. if got nothing to lose – but “nothing” doesn’t include your life – then go ahead. give it a shot
After all, when would you get another chance? The trip of a lifetime…
I really like the style of this story – and the lack of quotations around the speeches gave it a sort of dreamlike quality. Very interesting take on the prompt 🙂
Hmm, I hadn’t thought about the effect of leaving out quotations! I’ll have to keep that in mind for future use. Thank you – I’m glad you like this one.
Dear Sharon,
..met Bigfoot.” Loved it. Very good story.
Aloha,
Doug
Thank you very much, Doug!
Very good! I enjoyed it.
Glad you like it!