joeislove's 100-word story for June 1, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 1, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Yeah, so we were just repairing a crack in the siding and when we removed a little bit of it, we found the original tile underneath. Can you believe someone would just put this over the top of something like that? What leads people to do something like that? How can you look at this and think, "No, what this needs is brown siding." I'm really starting to question a lot about the world now. What else is out there hiding in plain sight? What other beauty is buried beneath the veneer of boring bullshit that has accreted over time?

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