magisternihil's 100-word story for November 18, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on November 18, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

It’s the same dream every night. The loud, slightly off-key music, the laughing children, the smell of cotton candy and funnel cakes, all fill in the tapestry of the fair, but all I want is to ride the carousel. Sometimes the crowd is thin, sometimes packed so thick it’s like trudging through treacle, but I push my way to the spinning lights and dancing horses, the shiny golden poles and barely hidden mechanisms. Then, just as I finally reach the spinning center of the cacophony, I wake up, my arm still outstretched, the memory of melted sugar on my tongue.

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