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

Cheater 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.

I found a head in the dirt today. Just a head. It had curly yellow hair like spaghetti and eyes that don’t blink, even when you stare real hard. I said, “Are you okay?” but it just smiled like everything was fine. I think it was pretending. Grown-ups do that too. Maybe it was a princess who got tired of her castle. Or maybe someone was really mad. I wanted to save her, but I don’t know how to fix heads. So I left her there, smiling in the dirt, like she was happy about being forgotten. Maybe she was.

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