Friday Fictioneers provides a prompt for each week’s challenge to write a 100-word story inspired by a photo. PS – ‘Nightie’ is Australian slang for a nightgown.
Come to a Nightie Night, she said. Everyone dresses in a plain, virginal nightie and are led by ‘nuns’ to a bargain-price shopping spree at the local lingerie boutique. There’s even an ‘Ascension to Heaven’ ceremony’, she said. It’ll be a hoot, she said. And when I glanced through the window to the next escalator, I could see the idea had really caught on. But when we got there it was like a cotton-infested hurricane as the ‘angels’ fought for the best bargains. I’ll take my chances with what happens when I take my nightie off, I said, and de-escalated.
Six Crooked Highways 
Angels fighting for bargains 🙂
Really creative! Midnight shopping and consumerist culture.
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Teehee! “Cotton-infested hurricane,” indeed! I can just see it!
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Dear Doug,
I believe a welcome to Friday Fictioneers is in order. Nightie-Night sounds like an excursion to stay away from. Incidentally, I’ve always heard them called nighties here in the States, too. 😉 Good one
Shalom,
Rochelle
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That was a hoot! And I feel for this one. I once went to one of those bargain sales for high-end beauty products and shall never do so again. Angels or no angels, they all become demons!
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Sounds like a shopping nightmare!
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That made me laugh, well done!
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Ah yes, ladies on a shopping spree, time to flee!
PS We use ‘nightie’ in Scotland too
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A mad shopping spree gone wrong – keep the nightie on until you get home – please.
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I like the light touch of your story. 😀
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Thank you, Oneta. Someone had to break the mould of Handmaid’s Tale and apocalyptic nightmares 😉
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Ripping yarn?
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My kind of pun 🙂
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Variety is the spice of life, I enjoyed reading this
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Thank you, Michael.
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Hilarious!
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Thank you, Linda.
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Entertaining escapade. I’m glad she de-escalated and went home to take her chances.
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