joeislove's 100-word story for December 3, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on December 3, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Clifford LeBlanc stared up at the ostentatious facade, overwhelmed by his own emotions of homesickness and longing. It wasn't that the sight of the building surfaced these feelings in him so much as that he was almost always on the precipice of being overcome by feelings of homesickness and longing. He imagined that if he had grown up in this building, looking out from one of those balconies every day, the sight of the building after many long years away would have drawn tears. Clifford sighed; he had not himself been home, many parsecs from here, for thousands of years.

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