magisternihil's 100-word story for June 23, 2026

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 23, 2026. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Commercials never tell you the whole story. Like that one for ketchup where the guy puts the bottle on the edge of the roof, goes down the stairs, buys a hotdog, then holds it out so the ketchup FINALLY falls and lands perfectly. Never mind that that’s not really that good a selling point that it takes that long. What about after, when the bottle continues to drip—in people’s hair, on business suits, in baby’s faces. And then that empty bottle falls. That guy went on to play Joey on Friends, so he has a LOT to answer for.

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