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

Jackal 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.

I came back to the spot Grandma and I used to picnic. As I sit here, years later, I’m reminded of what she used to tell me, “ships may come in a bottle but that doesn’t mean that’s where they are meant to stay” I could never understand what she meant because you can’t take the ship out without breaking the bottle and I’m not a fan of destruction. So is she saying I should be the bottle?? It wasn’t until grandma passed and my book became a best seller that I figured out I was the ship all along.

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