(Author’s Note: The first Fictioneers of 2016, and I’m doing something a little different: Unique name, same great music and fiction you’ve come to love and enjoy! Next week’s writing will come from Cheongju, South Korea.)
© Melanie Greenwood
New Year On High
by Miles H. Rost
“I never though I’d see fireworks like this!”
“You mean, from ten thousand feet up in a jet?”
“This was a great idea, Mitch. You really made my New Year’s!”
“And I would like to make many more of these with you. Though, if you told me 9 years ago that I was going to be taking my worst enemy from high school up in my own private jet to celebrate New Year’s above Sydney…”
“And who would have though that I would actually be dating my sworn enemy in the first place.”
“Well, Melinda, they say people who hate each other sometimes really have too much love.”
“Wish I knew that back then. Would–“
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I am troubled by that cut off in your last line. Hope it was because he kissed her, we need some happy endings around here. 🙂 Nice music.
Well, that’s why I put it that way…to add some mystery. 😀
I like to think he proposed!
That’s why I like leaving open endings. So many possibilities! ^_^
I’m a bit worried they were flying too low or the fireworks were a bit too high!
Investment in the characters’ fate. I love this! ^_^
Oh! The places our imaginations can go… great open ending!
I have to confess that the ending left me baffled.
Let your imagination wander with the possibilities.
Ha.. I wander if there was a hatchet buried on that airplane…
Definite mystery here. Nicely done.
PS. And the fireworks over Sydney Harbour are the best. I was there for the 1988 New Year’s-Bicentennial celebration. Beautiful!!
I’m with Bjorn. Perhaps they aren’t getting along as well as they profess.Nice open end to this.
I like the idea of watching fireworks from above. That’s a great image, although I’ll probably wait until I have my own private jet to see it, i.e. never. My guess for the ending is that a firework came too close and blew up the plane, but that’s just my morbid streak showing. 🙂
Could be. One will have to wait to find out…possibly.
Nice open ending. My mind has taken me to multiple places for what ended that sentence so abruptly. But I’m going to just pretend that it was a kiss. haha
My first thought was: too distracted, crash. Second thought was that he’s flashing a showy diamond ring in her face and they live happily ever after.
Who knows what it may be…there may be a followup. XD
I think this will end very badly.
DJ
C’mon! what happened?
Heh heh heh…For now, use your imagination. 😀