This is my entry for the Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. This challenge requires me to write a story using 100 words or less. Today I am tying my story to two others that I have done. The first one is: The Wine Bar. The second: More!
Senior Band – Photo by David Stewart
The sun was setting in the park, and the senior citizen band was ready to play. The conductor raised his baton; and the music began. Notes flowed from each instrument.
Song after song they played. As the evening wound down, they finished the song “25 or 6 to 4.” Suddenly they could hear a humming sound. A light beamed down upon the gazebo, and in a flash, it was gone!
The seniors found themselves in a bar filled with grey beings drinking glasses of wine. Each senior heard the word, “Play.” And, so they did. The aliens raised their glasses!
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Thank you Rochelle for hosting this challenge and David for the photo that inspired this story! And, I thank you dear reader for taking the time to stop by for a quick read! Have an amazing day and be well… ^..^
And a fine Cheers to you too!
Fun piece 🙂
Thanks!
Cool!!!
The seniors thought so too!
Great use of UFOs there but it still doesn’t explain why they took Elvis now, does it?
Tay 😈
Maybe they took Elvis for entertainment? Thanks for the comment Tay!
Interesting! I feel like this could just keep going! More! : )
More! Play! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the story Emily!
So aliens like to party too. I guess they’re not that differnet from us. Well done and enjoyable story, Barb. 😀 — Suzanne
Thank you Suzanne! I had fun writing this one…
Dear Babso,
I wonder how many earthlings are on that planet now? At least they’ve got a good band. Well done.
Aloha,
Doug
🙂 I wonder myself!
Dear Barb,
At least they were taken somewhere their music was appreciated. Imaginative story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle…I had fun with this one! Thanks again for hosting!
Good story. I’m glad the senior citizens were the ones to have some adventure. Imagine if the aliens had spotted a boy band instead.
Seniors always need to get out, and this was an adventure they surely needed!
Every good prompt needs a good sci-fi ending.
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Lucky seniors. These gray aliens could have been meanie-pants aliens instead of wine drinking, music lovers.
They are lucky indeed!
Which town was this? I’ll never go there….:)
My memory was erased so I cannot tell you! Sorry!
I’m glad the aliens have an appreciation of music. it says a lot for them.
Better than the four notes played in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.
Randy
Do-do-do-do-do! 🙂
Wait…
Wasn’t that from the Twilight Zone?
Waiting….Nope. Sorry, at that time in my life when the show played I was too young to be a script writer! 🙂
so – you were an extra?
as in extra terrestial?
🙂 Silly!
Strange but interesting! How can they just change the scene just like that?
🙂 There is no telling what an aliens species can and cannot do!
I agree, but don’t like it, it is scary!
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Nice! More of those cool aliens who already like wine, now they like music! I’d like to party with these guys. Funny and fascinating story!
Thanks Eric! I had fun writing this one!
Looks like the aliens are rounding out their festivities and wine bar – and they must enjoy us Earthlings since they keep beaming humans up. How do I get beamed to the intergalactic wine bar?
You have to be in the right place at the right time!
Another good one.
Thank you Anneli! I had fun writing this!
I think some sort of Interplanetary Employment Board needs to be set up – these aliens can’t just keep on abducting anyone they want to do some work for them! 🙂
Who are they going to take next? One has to wonder. Do we set up this board? We would have to collaborate on this with the greys…
Great story Barb! I loved it. Great images of gray beings drinking wine and dancing to the songs played by the senior citizens. 🙂
🙂 I just had to tie this to the aliens and the wine!
LOL! It was wonderful!
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It wasn’t going to be long before the aliens realised there was something missing and decided to add some entertainment! As a human, I can’t help feeling a little bit used by these aliens guys 🙂
We are being used by them…we don’t realize most of what they are doing to us here on our world! 🙂
A few more of your stories and most of us will be up there with them 🙂
Wouldn’t that be fun? A blogger and alien party! Break out the wine!