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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Should Ex-Acquantance Be Forgot

Amid a million NYers, nowhere to pee, they dropped the ball and she dropped me.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Nowhere to pee indeed. The Times Square thing is seriously overrated! So funny and sad.

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Even more reason for a sixty something to stay home and watch on tv😊

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Lisa H. Owens's avatar

I've heard people actually wear adult diapers for this very reason!

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Ha and don’t even think about where the hot dog vendors go 😊

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Mileva Anastasiadou's avatar

'My future self came by on New Year's Eve'

You messed me up, she said. Congrats, I said, because despite me, you made it.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

The title makes this story. Perfection.

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Mileva Anastasiadou's avatar

Awww, thank you Meg 💖💖💖

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Elan Barnehama's avatar

1969 Times Square. I”m watching decades turn. Strangers kissing. No one is kissing me

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

so sad and lovely.

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KathrynK's avatar

On New Year’s Eve You Got Lost

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Paid the cab driver, followed him to the club. You’d never be the cool girl.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Oh man. So good!

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Coleman Bigelow's avatar

A Short-Lived Celebration

Noisemaker mid-lip, his cheeks turned an angry fuchsia. When the confetti dropped, so did he.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Darkly funny, so well done!

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Cheryl Snell's avatar

Leaving before Midnight, He Saves Somebody’s Life

He looked up at the ceiling’s silver ball. Who ordered another year anyway, he grumbled.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

I love it! The Curmudgeon New Year!

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Derek Reinhard's avatar

I never get laid on New Years. Too busy drinking myself clever and good looking.

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Gerard DiLeo's avatar

And then just one more drink makes you invisible.

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Genevieve Beltran's avatar

Heavily pregnant on NYE. Like the coming year, the child inside me a restless unknown.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

this is wonderful!!

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Genevieve Beltran's avatar

Thank you!

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Melanie DeCarolis's avatar

Eight Months to the Real New Century

Drank several glasses of cigarette butts steeping in discarded Champagne fearing my future with him.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Says everything. A brilliant capture.

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Angela Fitzpatrick's avatar

Annus Horribilis

I always sleep. Good morning, welcome New Year. Today I’m watching to ensure 2024 leaves!

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

I couldn't agree more!

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Pamela Pescosolido's avatar

“It’s the End of the World As We Know It”

New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K scared us all. But, as usual, doomsday prophecies were wrong.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

I remember it! Well captured.

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Claudia Monpere's avatar

New Year’s Eve Party, Age 16

My maroon satin hot pants, floppy velvet hat, sloe gin. Everything matched, even the barf.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

We would have been friends, although I would probably have been drinking Kahlua! Laughing re: the barf. Just right.

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Gerard DiLeo's avatar

Here's mine, entitled, "The Joke You Can Only Play Every Thousand Years":

Fearing Y2K Armageddon, she partied, anyway, until I threw the circuit breaker at midnight.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

This is dark! (pun intended). Great title!

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Joseph Young's avatar

May’s Resolution

She aimed the cork for his crotch, his Baby New Years balls. Everyone froze.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Startling indeed!

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Joseph Young's avatar

lol. it feels something like something I've seen, but i'm probably just memory hallucinating. I've done some very cold new years.

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Karen Walker's avatar

Hope I'm in time. Wrote this at work.

Title: From 10:02 p.m. Dec 31 to approx. 3 a.m. Jan 1

sloshy, sniffly Simon sings,

"Should nose maintenance be forgot

In days of auld lang slime?"

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Made me laugh! Delighted.

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Karen Walker's avatar

Based on a true story!

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Saad Ali's avatar

Mémoire (Dec ’06 CE): Havin’ to Fashion (‘n Blow Life into the) Snowmen to Have a Ball at a Gentleman’s Game, Cricket

Since all my other sentient mates had plans with their sentient (significant) halves.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Wonderful and so original.

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Saad Ali's avatar

Thank you, Meg!

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