10 Things to Think about at New Year’s Eve Party

This flash fiction, in its innovative form, lists the hopes and disappointments of its young protagonist at the end of the year.
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1} The party is at its pinnacle. It’s a few minutes to midnight. You stand there with a red plastic cup in your hand. It’s your first and still half full. The legal age of drinking in Korea is 20, you wonder what it in your country is or is it even legal to drink in public.

2} AI is the coolest thing; you thought, you thought a little more and then you plagiarized the Chemistry test.

3} You woke up in the corner of midnight, drenched in fear and sweat!

4} You and your classmates wrote long essays on women empowerment and watched Harris lose, Trump win! 

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5} Though you don’t care much, you still wonder what if there is no war in the entire world for an entire year, and BBC broadcasting only puts forth happy news about happy people and happy pets.

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6} How you blush every time he calls your name in the high-school corridor, or the cafeteria and you shiver even though 2024 is known to be the hottest on record!

7} How you can’t stop asking yourself Have I Ever … after watching Never Have I Ever!

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This new year, begin collecting moments, rather than things

8} How you can’t stop humming Apt Apt for days and weeks and learn the dance moves but feel too shy to try them!

9} The beaming faces of your friends, dancing to the tunes of the last song of the party, under the dust-colored moon, ushering a new year, full of cherry-coloured hopes and promises and a few heartbreaks.

10} How you feel numb, and your heart races fast as he walks towards you with that dashing dimple and a sunny smile, and you dream of something, anything, or maybe just a new beginning!

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Author Marzia Rahman

Marzia Rahman is a fiction writer and translator. Author of two books, Dot and Other Flashes and The Aftermath, her flashes and translations have been widely published in both print and online journals. Her novella-in-flash If Dreams had wings and Houses were built on clouds was longlisted in the Bath Novella in Flash Award Competition 2022. Her work has been nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 and Pushcart Prize 2024. She has recently co-edited a flash fiction anthology Flashlights.

Marzia Rahman is a fiction writer and translator. Author of two books, Dot and Other Flashes and The Aftermath, her flashes and translations have been widely published in both print and online journals. Her novella-in-flash If Dreams had wings and Houses were built on clouds was longlisted in the Bath Novella in Flash Award Competition 2022. Her work has been nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 and Pushcart Prize 2024. She has recently co-edited a flash fiction anthology Flashlights.

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