calwinters's 100-word story for June 6, 2025

calwinters wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 6, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Don't Lose Your Head Control yourself beat down the rumblings keep your impulses soothed and complacent never forget that people are watching observing and memorizing ready to call back at any moment your most embarrassing actions to further their need for superiority From the moment of your birth you have been recorded judged tested sorted into usable pails and into buckets into cans and containers all to be doled out when deemed fit So don't act out you'll ruin everything keep to the course do as you're told and in the end something nice will be engraved on your tombstone

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