Short Story

Remembering 1967

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Six Sentence Story where we are
challenged to incorporate the word “platform” into
a story of exactly six sentences. Here’s my six.

Flower child, barefoot Woodstock hippie …. no, she was never one of those; she was always the sophisticated cool one with her oh so very low-rise jeans, alluring halter tops, ridiculously high platform shoes and drop dead smile.

At twenty she was chic in a smooth and sensual way that was second nature, never one who had to try too hard; she had IT while embracing her imperfections which made her intoxicatingly irresistible. 

Living in the fast lane, she danced all night at clubs, rocked out at concerts and hung out with everyone from judges to junkies even though she never really enjoyed drugs with the exception of the indescribably exquisite quaalude which now, at 75, she smiles and remembers coming on to the sounds of Procol Harum.

Memories of 1967, the Summer of Love …. friends and lovers, never a lack of either; men were drawn to her and women were envious of her but it was impossible not to like her.

She was no alley cat, no “screw-‘em-in-the-disco-bathroom” type; she made the rules to her game: never do anything you don’t want to and stop whenever you feel uncomfortable.

Her life was and still is a passionate one with no useless regrets, inadequate apologies or unbelievable explanations …. only her scars which show a life well lived …. and that’s exactly how she likes it.

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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

This is “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” by Procol Harum

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25 thoughts on “Remembering 1967”

  5. Sounds like the touch of Heaven, on Earth. Smiles in one’s 70’s predicated on a life life memorably and respectfully lived in one’s 20’s.

    Wonder if existing in the 60’s was a most accessible path. Cuz the 80’s? Uffda!

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