7 Minuets in Heaven
The end of year parties at band camp were always crazy.
The flutes were behind the bar serving champagne while the French horn tried to chat up as many girls as he could.
The tam-tams flirted with the tom-toms while the euphoniums got caught talking to the snare drum.
The bassoons were acting like buffoons while the glockenspiels told dirty, German jokes.
The bass drum spent the whole night making sure the cymbals didn’t clash while the trumpets played Miles and smoked cigarettes and looked cool.
Everyone clapped when the tambourines arrived.
And the cellos just smooched in the closet.
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Some Friday Fictioneers for you with the prompt coming from Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.
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Sean Fallon 
28 replies on “Friday Fictioneers: 7 Minuets in Heaven”
LOL…thanks for the laugh. Very clever!
Tom
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Dear Sean,
This piece is music to my eyes. i echo Tom,…very clever…very clever indeed.
Shalom
Rochelle
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very very clever…love it
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Lovely! I thought the image looked quite erotic too.
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Glad to see I wasn’t the only one to hear the cellos talk, lol. Fun take on the prompt. I chuckled at the glockenspiels telling dirty jokes.
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Clever… for a sausage maker…
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i wanna be a cello when i grow up. if i grow up. just a cello. well done.
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Very clever, well thought out.
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this is lovely and cleverly written ^^
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Oh what fun. This was an inspired take on the prompt and the last sentence was perfect.
Aloha,
Doug
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I loved this. My favourite so far this week, and that’s amongst a great deal fellow of anthropomorphic stories. I agree with Doug – a perfect last line. ‘Smooched’ was exactly the right word.
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It started with a great, punny title and just got better and better. That’s my kind of story. 🙂
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Hi Sean,
So much excellent word play here and the band camp premise was ingenious. It flowed like a melodious song. Ron
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Very clever and lots of fun. Love the idea tam-tams flirting with tom-toms. 🙂
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Many dittos from me. You struck just the right note. 🙂
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Wonderful – I’m happily confused about whether you’re talking about the actual instruments or the people who play them – it works either way, and I think the uncertainty makes the story more fun to read!
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That’s one musical story! Love the way it flowed and the last line is sheer brilliance, perfectly befitting.
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Love love love this story! And they do look very cosy in their little cupboard. Brilliant 😀
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I don’t know how you do it, but KEEP IT GOING!!!! This was a treat to the eyes, brilliance for the mind, it rocked! You definitely have the soul of an Irish poet.
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a festive romp! Very well done!
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Great funny use of the prompt! You know, it does look like they’re smooching!
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Another great piece of inuendo, I love the cross collaboration between our world and the way we view the instruments.
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Ha, yes very we’ll told. I got the same idea from the picture but my story is a little story.
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Wonderful story. I couldn’t write my comment for laughing. Those naughty instruments.
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Love the title!
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How wonderful!
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this is just too wonderful. Please, please, please send this off to a music publication. It’s so publish worthy.
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Very clever premise and great execution.
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