Larry the Time Traveler: New Year at Studio 54!
Larry is back! Telling us another part of his journey!
Hello everyone!
A new dose of fiction is on the way, but before that, let me thank you for reading and supporting me.
Sharing my work has been a great personal challenge but it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
The new year is ahead of us and I have to say 2023 was probably the best year of my life - so far.
I hope 2024 will be even better and I promise to keep delivering good quality stuff right under your noses!
This is the last story of the year and I couldn’t think of anyone more fitting to deliver it than our local time traveler - Larry.
Enjoy!
This story is a part of Larry’s adventures, you can find the first part here:
Hey folks, Larry here.
As you probably figured, I survived! It was close, but the pills kicked in right on time as the world ended in front of my eyes. Lucky! Yay!
The travels have not been easy though. I was sent into the midst of a freaking Napoleon era and straight into his bedroom (dude's not as small as people say he is).
French prison was fun, but not as thrilling as the others I had the cursed pleasure to visit. They were nice enough to let me fall asleep and I suppose they were pretty surprised at what happened to me. I got back into France a little bit after that, but way later in the timeline and there were some new legends about colorful elf vanishing out of Napoleon's prison. Luckily I didn't change any major historical events.
So lucky me! Again!
This has actually been bothering me a lot lately. Like, I met some really cool people in the last couple of weeks of my unfortunate endeavor and I'm afraid I might have spoiled some stuff for them... Who knows, maybe it's nothing. Or maybe when I will end up in 2023 again there will be flying cars and a world without wars… or maybe the other way around.
Like yesterday! I had the chance to meet a real genius and I actually managed to meet him for the second time! Dude recognized me and tried to help me. You would never guess. The smartest man in the history of humanity - Mr. Leonardo Da Vinci.
I have been into the future and tried to explain my situation to many people and nobody believed me. NOBODY! In no time period.
Nobody other than sweet Leo in the freaking 1500s. He is a great guy by the way. The last time I met him I told him what cool shit he had done... which he didn't do back then yet... But now he had done them... Which means... I don't know.
We had a long conversation and he thinks that maybe my time traveling was a historical event in itself and everything I do is just a sequence of my existence or something like that... and the historical figure that he becomes for us in the future is only because of me!
It's weird, you know?
Anyhoo... It's hard to keep track of time while moving right through it... hell, it was hard even before? Days always felt like minutes. Weeks have gone by in hours. Year after year, the world never stops... Before the hangover of the last New Year party fades, a new one is here.
By my calculations, 2023 should be around New Year's Eve right now. Which is funny, because today I woke up in New York on the 31st of December 1979 at Studio 54.
Yes. The party, that created the celebrities as we know it - that isn't from my head someone wrote it somewhere.
As far as I know, Studio 54 was open only for three years since 78' which means I'm on the last New Year's party at this house of cocaine, money, and liquor.
I've already had the chance to meet Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Freaking John Lennon was here and still alive - I have a feeling I should've told him about the "incident" but I didn't want to screw up the timeline, y'know?
Andy Warhol is a really cool dude. I showed him a tattoo of a panda from his Endangered species collection, that I have on my ribs. It was a perfect copy of his work. He was a bit shocked because for one, he had never seen such a quality of a tattoo and two he didn't paint it... yet. I tried to play it down, but then I blundered that I'm in fact from the future, which sparked a pretty cool conversation and he said "In the future, everyone will get their 15 minutes of fame."
That immediately made me think of TikTok and I said to him, that he couldn't be more right.
The rest of the night was a wild mixture of drugs, drinks, and conversations with people who had no idea who I was or how I got there.
The whole Rolling Stones band was there, partying like their life depended on it, someone told them they would party themselves into an early grave like this. I told him they wouldn't and that I can see them tour 30 years into the future. Nobody (other than Andy who shot me a knowing glance) believed me.
It was wild... One more outstanding conversation was with John Lennon. I held myself from spoiling his future, it was easy enough because he just went on about peace and love - he also loved my tattoos, especially the hippie ones.
All of his quotes about love made me a bit sad. Because they made me think about love.
Especially about the one I left.
So if you get the chance to read this honey. I hope you are doing fine. It's about a quarter of a year since I traveled for the first time and I miss you like nothing in the world.
I hope you don't miss me too much and that you are keeping the show of life ongoing. Enjoying the life in full as we did together.
I have only one wish for 2024 and that is to get back to you.
I also hope this reaches you in some way and also at the right time. Because if you are reading this at the age of 80, hardly remembering the guy called Larry that left you... that would be awkward.
I love you hon... Happy 2024!
Thank you again for reading and supporting my work!
Before you go answer a question for me please!
I wish you all the best in 2024!
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