magisternihil's 100-word story for January 16, 2026

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on January 16, 2026. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Got a note slipped under my door late last night. It read “Wait for me at the depot. I’ll be on the six o’clock.” No idea who left it. I spent that whole next morning trying to figure it out. Was it some prankster teens out to mess with people’s heads? Maybe some nefarious political scheme I was unwittingly drawn into because I accidentally bought the right book? A long-lost love hoping to reconnect? Curiosity overwhelmed me, so at six o’clock I was at that depot. I waited a full two hours before going home to a thoroughly burgled apartment.

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