thaopixelpoet's 100-word story for December 11, 2025

thaopixelpoet wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on December 11, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I made it out. Alive. What started as a whimsical twenty-five group bike through the mountains turned into a one-survivor, gloomy, horrid, mystical urban legend. And now I’m standing here, hopefully alone, with my right hand erecting the bike vertically in a wild, foggy, unending abandoned grassland looking for any sign of escape. Two beaming bright fluorescent light pierced straight back to me. “Hey you!” Cried the police officer. “Are you one of the racers? We lost track of everyone.” “Yes, I think I’m the only one left.” “Get in, it’s dangerous out” he pulled me inside. It’s dangerous… in.

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