JKWriter's 100-word story for November 8, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on November 8, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

"Just great...midnight at the subway station and all of the lights go out. Thank God the lights are still working inside the subway itself," Stella thought to herself as she pushed her way through the shadowy bodies of others also waiting for transportation. This was just the way the entire day had been going, though. Nothing had gone right. Not only had she showed up late for work, she also found out it was going out of business. Which meant she would be unemployed at the end of the month. To herself again, "Dear God, please...nothing else, today!"

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