magisternihil's 100-word story for January 7, 2026

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on January 7, 2026. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The nights are long and the city is filled with feelings of desperation. It takes little these days to push a person over the edge from upstanding citizen to furious criminal, and it’s the latter group I fight. My eyes are keen and my hearing sharp. I watch over them all and listen for frantic cries, for only someone as trained as I in the arts of battle can save the hapless— What are—? Oh man, not again! Listen, I’m not a jumper, I’m a crime fighter! Don’t blow up the big airbag! Come on, man! Fine! I’m coming down!

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