JKWriter's 100-word story for November 9, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on November 9, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Someone's boom box was playing Beach Boys music loud enough that the two brothers swimming back into shore could hear it over the crashing waves. It was summer but the waters were still crispy cold against their skin. Sitting somewhere out of sight was their mother. She never enjoyed being outside...especially in the sun. Perspiration was never a middle-aged woman's favorite thing and this was a day where everyone's skin glistened with it. The boys were swept onto the sand, laughing they stood up and walked dripping all the way to where she sat. Soon they'd be going home.

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