THE CHALLENGE:
Write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle and an end. (No one will be ostracized for going a few words over the count.)
THE KEY:
Make every word count.
Thanks for stopping by the Crazy Character House, I mean my blog, for another week of Friday Fictioneers. Hope your week has been a good one. Now on with the show!
Thanks go out to the wonderful hostess on this special bus ride, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. If you want to read more stories based on the same picture or to perhaps reserve your seat on the Special bus, just click on Rochelle’s name and away you go! Have fun! Be wild and adventurous! Or just sit quietly in your seat with your seat belt fastened.
Genre: Literary fiction (100 words)
“Fred! What have you done?”
“I can’t take it any more Ethel! The constant barrage of bad music coming from the apartment above us is driving me insane!”
“You can’t just take his keyboard Fred! It’s in pieces too!”
“I’m going to bury it in the back yard tonight when everyone is in bed. Maybe for once I can get some rest.”
5 am the next morning, Fred crawls into bed after showering off the dirt from the musical grave outside. Sighing blissfully in the silence he snuggles down.
Wham! Bam! Bam! Boom! Boom! Smiling the man upstairs beats on his new drum set.
The Last Chapter 
He He! I bet the man was watching the “funeral” of his keyboard!
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He might have 🙂
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Oh not the drums! He should have just settled for the keyboard I think. Funny tale today. Great one.
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Thanks 🙂
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Oh, I have felt that way before! I think this is from the frying pan into the fire, though.
janet
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I think so. Fred is in for a world of hurt without being touched. 😉
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Very funny!
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Thanks! I usually don’t do funny, but today was a good day. 🙂
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You should try ‘funny’ more often. Nice one.
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Thanks Sandra!
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Poor Fred. LOL
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He better not buy the drums, who knows what could be next. 😉
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Great story, Jackie. Thanks for the laugh.
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Glad you enjoyed it Karen. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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Dear Jackie,
I could see the Mertz’s and Fred’s blustering frustration. Perfect punchline. This could have been an I Love Lucy episode. Great fun.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Now that’s an awesome compliment! Thank you Rochelle.
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Dear Jackie,
Fred needs to learn (and I think he just did) that it’s not the arrow, it’s the indian, and next time bury the musician instead of the instrument. Great story. (I did keep waiting for Ricky and Lucy to make an appearance, but that’s just me dating myself, I guess.)
Aloha,
Doug
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Maybe if I had more than 100 words to work with you might have seen Ricky and Lucy! Thanks for reading. 🙂
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And the keyboard will come back to haunt him. There are ways of handling things, and there are ways of not handling things. I know from bitter experience! Good take on the story and well written. Ann
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Well Fred could say he was temporarly insane. 😉 Thanks for reading.
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Great twist at the end. Might be worth Fred getting some soundproofing!
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Might be less work and grief. Thanks for reading! 🙂
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That made me smile 😀
I’ve missed your twisty tales!
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Thanks El! I’ve missed your fun ones. Hope you’re back now? Or are more adventures in store for you? 😉
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Very entertaining piece.
Well done.
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Thank you anelephantcant.
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Ahaha Jackie! I must say I really enjoyed my visit to the Crazy Character House today! I am a huge I Love Lucy fan and isn’t this just something Ricky would do? HA! You’ve got to hand it to Fred for taking the initiative though! 😀
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He did try. 😉
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That man upstairs had better watch himself; he may end up in the musical graveyard next.
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Hopefully Fred just buries instruments, but you never know.
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Living in close quarters…can’t escape altogether. Good story. 🙂
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thank you 🙂
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