Genre Shorties Week 92: You can’t get there from here.

It's January 1, 2012 and you wake up in a strange bed with a raging headache.

Did you ring in the new year with:

a) Lady GaGa

b) Jeanne Clarke

c) an armadillo (oh, come on, you know you like it)

d) two goldfish and a vampire

e) Tom Selleck

f) Antonio Banderas (that's for you, Ann C.)

And did it involve:

1) jail

2) Walmart

3) the post office

4) Red Lobster

5) a streetcar named Desire?

Now, some of you cheat (er, get creative) and throw everything into your posts, but I really do challenge you to pick ONLY ONE item from the first list and ONLY ONE item from the second list to tell me about your festivities.

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A stabbing pain lands behind my right eye. Wrenching myself up, with the

ledge above me, I find that I can only slouch against the wall; I am half

buried in an indoor flowerbed. Pulling my legs into my chest; I wrestle with

my inner ear and stomach. Pulling myself up I peer through the view port

above the ledge. A streetcar emblazoned with the word “Desire” and a driver

that may be Tom Selleck floats past; revealing the void of space and the sun’s

corona growing larger.

I begin to put together a story for the missus.

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