Hide's 100-word story for May 22, 2025

Hide wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 22, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The way I don’t want to do this is unnerving. To stand in front of the stove cooking sausages, staring at a picture of the stringed instrument and trying to think of something to say. I’m sure it feels like how the kid being forced to practice the violin must feel. Like he should do a good job but he can’t. It’s my fault anyways, I muse, for procrastinating. Ideas and bad puns flit through my mind 80HD. Fiddle Castro. No, that’s dumb. The fiddle con from American Gods. No, we hate that author now. Shit, the sausages are burning.

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