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Friday Fictioneers – Taking The Town (…A Third Time?!)

(Author’s note: After a week of being sick (hence why no post last week), I am back to give more fictioneers. This is a reprise… or maybe a new season, of “Taking The Town”. The last entry of this was “Taking This Town (Again)” from MANY months ago. So I figured it’d be nice to revisit the idea…)

© Rowena Curtin

Taking The Town (… A Third Time?!)

by Miles H. Rost

Professor Ronald Scott did not know what hit him.

One minute he was walking down a side street around the Royal University of Sydney, after finishing the prep for student orientation;

The next, he was bouncing in a sea of co-eds into a very active bar.

His particular ring of people involved 20 or so, led by a vibrant blonde with a Melbournian accent.

“Girls! Devour anything you see!”

With Icehouse’s “Taking The Town” thumping through the bar, the good professor barely made it out of the bar alive. Torn clothing, lipstick kisses, the works.

“They’re back…”, he said, fainting.

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Friday Fictioneers – New Year On High

(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–“