JKWriter's 100-word story for April 25, 2026

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on April 25, 2026. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

All she'd had with her was a brown sharpie and the four sides of a manilla file folder. When she walked out of her office to meet someone at the constabulary, the psychiatrist had no idea she would be asked to give a rorschach test in the field. The chief hadn't given her so much as one clue as to why he'd called her in the first place and the only reason she had a file folder with her was that she would be heading over the hospital later to pick up some papers for another one of her patients.

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