Flash, Short Story

Nancy & Bill In 2045

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Written for Melissa’s Fandango Flash
Fiction Challenge #312. Here’s my flash.

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“Why’d you drag me all the way down here, honey? You know my knees get all wanky in the sand.”

“There’s something you gotta see, sweetie. It’s unbelievable!”

“Can we go home when this is all over? My Weird Al post isn’t gonna write itself!”

“All in good time, sweetie. You gotta check this out!”

“Ok, what is it I’m supposed to be looking at?”

“It’s a boat. Just squint and you’ll see it better.”

“That big thing all the way out there? It’s huge! What is it, hon?”

“It’s ‘The Love Boat’ and it’s heading this way!”

“The ‘Love Boat’?! And why are you talking like Barry White all of a sudden? Have you completely lost your mind, Bill?”

“Now, sweetie, I figured you say something like that but just hold on a second. Do you see the vessel being towed by The Love Boat?”

“I see it, hon. What is that contraption?”

“You can’t see the writing on it?”

“You know I can’t see that far! Well, don’t keep me in suspense! What’s it say?”

“It says ‘The Fountain of Youth! Come aboard and drop 50, 60 or 70 years! Recapture your bygone days on ‘The Love Boat’!”

“Are you kidding me? We can be 20 years old again?”

“That’s right! Do you remember what we were like at 20, sweetheart?”

“Do I ever! Honey, my memories of lots of sweet lovin’ and no kids are as sharp as ever!”

“So, sweetie …. whaddya say?”

“What do I say?! Bill, get out your flares and wave that sucker in!”

“That’s my girl! You haven’t changed a bit.”


Well, kids …. you knew I simply had to do it!  This is “The Love Boat Theme” by Jack Jones. See how the famous guest stars have changed with age …. or died! 🛳️

Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #312

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50 thoughts on “Nancy & Bill In 2045”

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      1. I don’t think we got anything like the full set here, and from memory it was several years after it was shown there. My wife watched a few, but then she always did have a taste for crap tv.

        Did Leroy Jethro Gibbs shoot anyone ?

        Dorian Gray isn’t for me, either.

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        1. Life is far to short to waste on crap tv, and most of it is exactly that.
          Sorry, I had to look up Leroy Jethro Grubbs so I can’t answer that question. We watched the first episodes of NCIS but they soon became theme-repetitive. I can’t commit to any show for that long.
          Nope, once around this circus is enough for me! 😂

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          1. I saw a very young Mark Harmon in your video, hence the question. I’ve seen every episode of NCIS, most of them several times, and am currently getting Season 22 each week on Disney+. I’ve seen all of the spinoffs too – my kind of tv 🤣

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  16. Hope that boat docked and you two got aboard. If that was me and Momo, I would be saying, ” see that wave, the big one about to break. Remember when I used to catch those with my longboard and ride the nose, and you were sitting on the beach, all lathered up with Crisco oil, gettin fried up to a crisp, in you little bikini, and you had that portable radio playing the Beach Boys and Steppenwolf, and those were some great times in Port A back in 1970, and nothin hurt and everything worked, and I could hear good.” Momo..” yep, I remember all that and more, and you were an idiot, there are big sharks out there.” Getting old is like mold on good cheese, it grows on us slowly. Great recount, Nancy, it inspires us to write about ours.

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    1. Excellent commentary, Phil; I so enjoy your mini stories! That could have been me and Bill in your little beach scenario instead of you and Momo. Additionally, we’d put iodine in our baby oil to enhance and speed up coloring AND used a reflector for the extra crispy recipe. We took our tanning seriously and it was finger lickin’ good! Love the metaphor of moldy cheese and age! Now we get some color in our pasty faces in a different manner …. via the tannins in red wine. It’s good for what ails you! Thanks, Phil!

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      1. Yeah, that Pino Nior makes my old cheeks rosy. Cracklin Rosey get on board..Momo and I went to Costco in Fort Woth today and bought some
        Sheep Cheese and other assorted foods. It’s supposed to make us healthier and Sheep milk has no A2 enzymes. We spent many days on the beach, winter and summer. Momo surfed a little, but I was a die-hard surf bum, VW Bus and all. Glad you like the mini-recounts. Thanks for reading.

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