thaopixelpoet's 100-word story for June 13, 2025

thaopixelpoet wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 13, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

September rain Here comes the train Again Lady in white, her ginger hair dyed yellow at the Top of the counter there are more ladies looking at her with mere Heads. One with fiery hair One’s like ebony wood One other dyed it purple and One with ginger hair dyed yellow at the top just like hers, they came here looking for their boyfriends fiancés husbands only to realize that they’re now “Widows” “Missing” “Forgotten” Their soulless eyes turned into plastic, fake like this promise from a kind stranger with a stranger bio “Happy anniversary, it’s Friday the 13th.”

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