joeislove's 100-word story for June 2, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 2, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

If you want to make an omelette, first you will need to explain to my friends here why you think their lives are less important than your own. Are they not themselves their own persons, with their own hopes, dreams, and aspirations? Should they not have a chance at a long and happy life? Can you really just select a couple of them at random and just crack them open into your bowl, to be whisked with cream and sizzled to golden perfection? Are you truly so callous that you would leave their friends to grieve that loss? You monster.

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