calwinters's 100-word story for June 8, 2025

calwinters wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 8, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Tickle the ivories don't fret no elephants were harmed in the making of this song it's a reference to an awful era when a man looked at a majestic beast bathing in a dusty river and said to himself "I bet I could make music from those massive teeth" and so the killing began wholesale slaughter all for tiny statuettes and trinkets galore rush forward to now where we massage plastic replicas of stolen tusks and silently sway enchanted by the majestic music pulled from the death and taut cables and wood as the elephants judge us tusk tusk tusk

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