In Response to a Challenge
Challenge here.
Basically, I'm to write a 100-word drabble on my default user pic. I know it's supposed to be funny, but... here's what I came up with. Humorous version might follow. Might not.
He walked in to find three flush-faced strangers in his apartment. They were singing an old song from his childhood, their voices rising and falling in unison, discordant, out of tune. The heady sweet odor of wine filled the air as the strangers spilled glass after glass. And he, brain-numb and bewildered, succumbed to the warm bosom of intoxication.
Morning found him on the floor, cheek pressed to the cold wood. He stood up and found everything in place, except for crystalline powder specks visible on the coffee table. And in his head was the echo of that childhood song...
Basically, I'm to write a 100-word drabble on my default user pic. I know it's supposed to be funny, but... here's what I came up with. Humorous version might follow. Might not.
He walked in to find three flush-faced strangers in his apartment. They were singing an old song from his childhood, their voices rising and falling in unison, discordant, out of tune. The heady sweet odor of wine filled the air as the strangers spilled glass after glass. And he, brain-numb and bewildered, succumbed to the warm bosom of intoxication.
Morning found him on the floor, cheek pressed to the cold wood. He stood up and found everything in place, except for crystalline powder specks visible on the coffee table. And in his head was the echo of that childhood song...