Classy Girls

#23 by the Lumineers

The Jukebox is thumping! A BIG SHOUT-OUT goes to Gray, Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦 , Debra Martin, primalbeet and Hank Cotton, for their submissions to last week’s prompt, Right Place Wrong Time, by Dr John. Readers, you can find their stories in the comments of that post! And Marty’s Headliner, Night Trippin, was a wicked awesome introduction!

Week #22 Feature🏆

The week #22 Feature goes to Hank Cotton for his short story titled, Right Place Wrong Time. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking 🤔 wait, aren’t you Hank Cotton?

Yes and no, it’s complicated. I’m more like Hank’s ‘handler’ than anything. And he’s written a great story here, if I do say so myself. Not to mention this isn’t his first submission — the standalone chapter/story titled, Wyoming, was a great representation of the toil that life out ‘over the road’ can put on a relationship. I think it did Zac Brown’s, Colder Weather, proud.

And in this story, Hank shows us how even though we might think everything’s going sideways — that we’re in the Right Place at the Wrong Time — we’re actually right where we’re supposed to be.

What was that Brooke said last night? Right Place, Wrong Time?

“Damnit man, story of my life.”

Right Place Wrong Time

Curious to read other Feature 🏆 Award Winners? I’ve created an Awards Page to serve as an index for all our Featured Stories!

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This week’s prompt is Classy Girls, by The Lumineers!

Calling all Poets, Fiction, or Non-Fiction writers that love music — Share your prose of 1500 words or less, using the prompt, Classy Girls.

Remember:

• Each Tuesday I’ll publish a newsletter with that week’s song prompt — along with a featured writer’s submission from the previous week.

• Anyone is then free to run with it! Just add the link to your story or prose in the comments of this newsletter.

• Subscribers to Stories from the Jukebox, also have a chance to be featured in the following week’s newsletter. And I’ll do my best to give feedback and restack each submission.

There’s always rules:

1. All forms of prose are welcome, just keep it under 1500 words.

2. Submissions must be published by midnight on Monday.

3. Submissions must include a tag/link to this week’s Song Prompt Newsletter embedded within the post.

   While anyone is welcome to add their post in the comments at any time — all rules must be followed for a post to be eligible to be featured or shared.

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The Lumineers are an American alternative folk band formed in Ramsey, New Jersey, in 2005, and now based in Denver, Colorado. The founding members are Wesley Schultz (lead vocals, guitar) and Jeremiah Fraites (drums, percussion, piano); cellist and vocalist Neyla Pekarek joined the band in 2010, and was a member until 2018. The Lumineers emerged as one of the most popular folk-rock/Americana artists during the revival of those genres, their popularity growing in the 2010s. They are known for their energetic live shows and several international hit singles, including "Ho Hey", "Stubborn Love", "Ophelia", "Angela" and "Cleopatra". (Wikipedia)

“Classy Girls” is one of the band's more obscure tracks, but is often played during their live performances. It’s the second track from their self titled album, “The Lumineers”, released in 2012. In the song, a fast-moving player tries to kiss a woman at a bar, but is met with her principled resistance as she tells him, “Classy girls don’t kiss in bars.”

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Our song prompt this week is brought to us by Gray. Grace, as I call her, predominately writes memoir stories — my favorite! I just love her style, and often find myself drifting off into her stories as I read them. I highly recommend subscribing to both of her publications, Turtle Meat: The Mixtapes and The Southern Writers Guild(which Hank is also a member). Grace hasn’t missed a prompt since joining the Jukebox, and even provides her own mixtape at the end of each of her stories!

Here’s this week’s Headliner, Classe’ Girls!

Some people might’ve guessed I’d pick a different song/band, but it was always going to be The Lumineers for me. Always. Wesley Schultz doesn’t overthink poetry—he tells a story and leaves enough room for us to find our own way inside it. And I love that.

Have fun, y’all. -Gray

Classé Girls

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I’m so excited to see what y’all come up with this week!

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