Fluorescent Reality

Another 100 word story (poem-ish)

I took a day trip to the Magic Kingdom to meet a friend who I haven't seen in four years.  It was a fun time, we got to really talk, joke around, update each other on what we've each been doing.  I felt bad that I had to leave later on, I'm hoping I captured it with this little writing.

Enjoy.

*picture is originally from http://www.beaverlakeboaters.net/events/beaver-lake-fireworks-2013/

12/28/2013 (Saturday)- Fluorescent Reality

               I drove to meet a friend at an old childhood place

                              reliving memories,

               leaving reality behind just for a bit.

                              we sat, ate, talked

                                             met his wife, parents, brother

                                                            …what have you been up to?

                                             I’m not sure where I’m going,

                              what I’ve been doing.

                                             I’m a writer now, I confessed as if I’ve been hiding it like a sin.

                                                            …that’s good. 

                                                                           …that’s nice. 

                                             and then they smile.

          

               I took the ferry back to reality

                              yellow and pink fireworks reflected

                                             on a man-made lake

paid by fiction-and-fairies

                                             I took the ferry back

                              to the cold sterile fluorescent light of reality.