Gray's 100-word story for June 5, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 5, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

There just ... wasn't much to do anymore. She got dressed, left the house, took paper and plastic with her everywhere, why? Just to sit on the grass, eat food out of a basket and stare at water. The colors were different, and she liked that. The blues and greens were more intense, there were others she didn't yet have names for. She took a bar of peanut butter-stuffed hazelnut chocolate out of the basket and bit into it. "You shouldn't eat so much chocolate," he said. "It's still not good for you." She sighed. Being a sheepdog had been better.

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