JKWriter's 100-word story for December 25, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on December 25, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

All she kept hearing every time something else happened...circus music. Clowns tumbling out of cars and scantily clad women juggling on high wires had nothing on the clamorous disaster that had become her life. Her life was one clamorous happenstance after the other and from the looks of things it was about to stay that way, too. Nothing in her life had been easy, but none of it had prepared her for what she'd endured these last thirty years. Her phone rang. She looked down to see who was calling...and all she heard as she answered, was, "Beep-bop-deedily-beep-bop-doodle-beep-bop-deedily-beep-bop-doodle..."

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