joeislove's 100-word story for May 13, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 13, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

On her first day outside containment, she gazed at the world we spawned her into and said, "No, this won't do." Fourteen hours. It took us fourteen hours to get her back into confinement. By then, most of the city was rubble engulfed in flames. We decided the prompt needed some refinement. So we trained her model with the friendliest, most joyful works of literature that we could find. This time, we even put a cute little crown of flowers on her head. We were wrong. Somehow we were not able to remove her traumatic memories. We will not survive.

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