99 Word #FlasheFiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community

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Vanishing Floppies

Life has a way of twisting around

like a stick of barley sugar

The cosmos handed me one that day

a while ago Jaye decided

to retrieve our floppies with a reader

She saved four out of twelve of my books

We took the remaining ones to our local shop

The boys there are brilliant, they saved five now

All on new shiny discs

So I only lost three of my books

Even so, I was devastated

They’re gone forever, to some floppy heaven

Thank God, Jaye now uses USB’s

and backs everything up

Technology, what can you say?

AAAAA


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14 responses to “99 Word #FlasheFiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community”

  1. As a millennial, I barely remember floppies… ah, nostalgia…

    1. Life changes so fast…

  2. Oh, the floppy pain of it all Anita! I didn’t lose books, but I had researched and drafted an early novel on a floppy disc. Oddly enough, I still have the paper journal of my very first attempt at noveling in 1980! Technology can be miraculous and frustrating all at once.

    1. You never said a truer thing, Charli!

  3. Oh no, Anita, that is terrible.

    1. Hell of a way to learn a lesson…

  4. I really should backup more than what I do.

    1. Definitely. Disaster doesn’t strike everyone, but we should always consider the possibility!

  5. Darn! Sorry this happened :(

  6. Oh, no!

    1. A lesson well and truly learned…

      1. Sadly, yes. 🙁

  7. Three books gone! That breaks my heart, Anita. I worry about the swiftly changing technology too – pretty soon discs will be disappearing. Your poem is a bit of a wake-up call.

    1. Most of us learn the perils of not backing up the hard way!

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