joeislove's 100-word story for June 4, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 4, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The world wears away at the edges. Stones that once were sharp are smoothed under the cumulative deluge millennial rain. Every great work will one day crumble to dust, leaving no trace we were ever here. Seas rise and fall, continents dance with each other, storms rage and abate, and deep within the earth, new stone is gestated and nurtured, birthed as lava and ash, some of it cooling to form new marble. One day in the distant future, some other craftsman will chisel it into a new form. And a seagull will shit on it anyway. So be it.

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