magisternihil's 100-word story for February 18, 2026

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on February 18, 2026. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

It started as a small ding from a rock thrown up by a lawnmower, that, as these things go, began to spread daily and before long my view was not of the garden but of thirty-six different slivers of garden poorly constructed, each one offset enough to disrupt the image and draw my eyes in to follow the corridor created—a hallway of flickering lights which had as its sole destination a dark room occupied by an undefinable shape that, as I watched, seemed to beckon to me to abandon my haven and discover what waited at the other end.

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