Time After Time

#27 by Cyndi Lauper

Week #26 Feature🏆

This week’s Feature goes to Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦 because well, I obviously loved his stories! I say stories because I mistakenly shared A Little Bit For Me - A Little Bit For You, thinking it was his submission. Had I been paying attention, I’d have noticed that it contained no reference to SFTJ, or the prompt 🙃 I’d just saw it, liked the story of the two little boys and shared it!

Graciously, Bill thanked me and added the links. Then shared his real submission, My Bags Are Packed, which is a perfect example of the Monkees song prompt. And of course, Bill gave it a wonderful spin.

Tony sat on the sofa. “In our discussions we have blamed each other for things. We have taken up positions where we see ourselves as being the person in the right. But the truth is it is a little bit of me and a little bit of you,” he paused as she turned to face him…

My Bags Are Packed

“We are talking to each other without blame. That is the first place to start.”

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

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Here’s this week’s prompt, Time After Time, by Cyndi Lauper!

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

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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"Time After Time" is a song by American pop singer Cyndi Lauper from her debut studio album, She's So Unusual (1983). It was released as the album's second single in January 1984, by Epic and Portrait Records. (Via Wikipedia)

Although "Time After Time" would eventually become one of Lauper's signature songs, it was one of the last songs on her debut studio album to be recorded.

Written by Lauper and Rob Hyman, who also provided backing vocals, the song was produced by Rick Chertoff. It was written in the album's final stages, after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "She Bop" and "All Through the Night" had been written or recorded. The writing began with the title, which Lauper had seen in TV Guide, referring to the science fiction film Time After Time (1979).

The inspiration for the song came from the fact that both songwriters were going through similar challenges in their respective romantic relationships; Hyman was coming out of a relationship, and Lauper was having difficulties with her boyfriend and manager, David Wolff.

Initially, Epic Records wanted "Time After Time" as the album's lead single. However, Lauper felt that releasing a ballad as her debut solo single would have pigeonholed her stylistically as a balladeer, limiting her future work and thus potentially killing her career. Wolff felt that "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" could become a successful pop anthem and was a better choice; ultimately the label agreed and released it as the lead single. "Time After Time" became the album's second single, released on March 27, 1984.

How would you like to pick our prompt? Find out how to join our revolving list of Headliners here.

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Our prompt this week was chosen by Anne J Sharp. Anne is an extremely talented writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Anne has multiple publications, her flagship pub being, Woman Rising — where in her own words Anne is, “Starting life over at 60, hoping to make my life count and leave a positive legacy for my descendants.”

She’s also one of the co-founders of Women’s Perspective. A place where we are aspiring to learn from each other what it is to be a woman one post, one poem, one live at a time. BTW- WP has a poetry contest, just waiting on your Vote.

Here’s this week’s Headliner, 12 Minutes!

My eyes are open. I do not close them anymore. I have been on this trip so many times that fear and pain are nothing more than a memory of a scar on flesh. Real by default. Reality by perception. Input received, reality of the moment. Imagination. Dreams. Thought. Memory. Sensation. It is my choice to accept or reject. I refuse.

12 Minutes

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

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