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

thaopixelpoet 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.

Literature...Philosophy...Ethics... Such were the virtuous studies of Ancient Greek. Great minds of humanity like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle used to just lounge around all day every day and talk and think and get admired and praised... Yet here I am, sitting on one of the white lawn chairs in my university campus, looking up at one such statues with a pigeon landed on top, and I wonder when it might shit. I happened to be in STEM, to make money and make my parents proud. But deep inside my heart, I know I want to be a writer.

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