magisternihil's 100-word story for June 7, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 7, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

They were right, it was nice out here on the water, far away from people, just floating and existing in this border space between air and water. He thought about what lay below him. How deep did the water go? If it suddenly disappeared, how far would he plummet before he hit jagged rocks? Was it as infinite as the sky above him. And what swam beneath him? Large fish? Is he going to be that guy who gets eaten by the enormous fish that no one has seen for millennia? He grabbed the oar and desperately paddled for shore.

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