magisternihil's 100-word story for April 19, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on April 19, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

“There’s only one phone in the village,” said the grocer. “If it’s working today.” I needed to call someone, anyone, to come get me out of this town in the middle of Kill-Me-Now Nowhere. I shouldn’t have waited to get gas. I realize that now. What kind of town doesn’t have a gas station? I walked past picket fences, friendly dogs, an old man watering his lawn, flowers in bloom. Missing were the horns, the shouting, the stress, the piles of garbage. I found the phone, then I kept walking. Maybe I should linger for a while. Just a while.

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