joeislove's 100-word story for May 18, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 18, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

This is my collection. It's taken years of careful curation to get to this point. Each of these little squares is a window. Yes, a window, but more than that. These are the lives I have selected that teach me about the human world. Here, this is one of my favorites. No, don't crane your neck over to look, you can just lightly touch it, see? Now you're transported into their little cage. See the mom over there? Looks like she's late getting the kids to school again. Of course they don't know I have them imprisoned. It's very humane.

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