joeislove's 100-word story for May 17, 2026

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 17, 2026. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

She always does this. I hate it and I've tried to tell her, but she just keeps at it. I don't think there is one dignified picture of me that has ever been taken. It's always something embarrassing like a picture of me in a bee costume, or that time when I accidentally got some whipped cream smeared on my nose. And if it is a time when I have done my best to look well-groomed and respectable, she does this. It's like she lives to humiliate me. I won't stand for it anymore. It's animal abuse, pure and simple.

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