Writing Prompt #5

Describe your year 2023, or a moment in it, in 23 words exactly.

Gotham Writers sponsors a contest for this every year. Here are samples from 2021:

We stood in the yard smoking cigars while fireworks laced with Tio’s ashes burst over the neighborhood.
    — Amelia Rodriguez, Hamilton, NJ

Guys in the meeting curse, then turn to me and apologize. I’m a flower, not a colleague.
    — Suzanne Mattaboni, Northampton, PA

As the floodwaters rose, I hotfooted it to the supermarket for emergency wine. It was closed. Disaster!
    — Nicola Moses, Limavady, United Kingdom