Crazy Beat

Feb 1st, 2024 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words

The music thrummed and the people spasmed to the beat. They called it dancing. Martinez, observing from the shadows, thought it looked more like a crazed ritual or a medical disorder.

“Should we put a stop to it?”

Her partner shrugged his shoulders.

“Hard to believe this used to be popular.”

“The dancing or the music?”

Martinez thought for a moment. “Both. Thank God it’s been banned.”

Her bosses at the enforcement authority feared the dancing would spread beyond the nursing home, but Martinez was certain no sane individual in the year 2045 would find pleasure in such deviant behavior.

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