magisternihil's 100-word story for June 14, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 14, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Have you ever been so hot that you think you might be melting, leaving footprints of yourself behind as you trudge down the hill, speed increasing with every exhausted step, sweat pouring out of every part of you in relentless streams, heat so overwhelming that your body thinks you’re swimming on the surface of the sun, then you run with wild abandon and dive head first off the end of the dock, soaring through the air, knowing all well the curglaff, that shock of plunging into icy water, will take all of your problems away if only for an instant?

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