Winners of the 15-Word "Memorable New Year's Eve" Contest!

Please read all of the wonderful 15-word stories that flew in last night like drunk and colorful ghosts of New Year’s Eves past! What a joy it was to read them! They were all memorable, so choosing just a small handful of stories felt impossible this morning.

Below if a brief selection of my favorite entries from last night. Congratulations and Happy New Year!

My future self came by on New Year's Eve By Mileva Anastasiadou

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

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New Year’s Eve Party, Age 16 by Claudia Monpere

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

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On New Year’s Eve You Got Lost by Kathryn Kulpa

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

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When We Were Very Young: New Year's Eve 1995 by Susan

After brandy, babies asleep on our coats, we leave crooked footprints in the new snow.

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Untitled by Norm Jensen

Pans banged, crackers fired, midnight came, midnight went, and they slept through it all—again.

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Barcelona, 1998, Watching "8mm" at a Friend's Apartment by Federico Escobar

Gruesome flickers inside smash against fireworks outside, always outside, always just past the window.

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A Short-Lived Celebration by Coleman Bigelow

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

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Dancing with Myself by Karen Crawford

Singing. Drinking. Spinning. Spinning. Forgetting you were kissing someone else.

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I Kissed John by Mike Freveletti

A mask party. No eyeglasses. John is short, like my wife. Babe? Hi, John. Mwah.