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

joeislove 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.

*record scratch* Yep. That's me. You're probably wondering how I got there. Trapped in time, like a mosquito in amber, floating above the dock, doomed to drift above this lake for eternity. Or so I thought. As it turns out, the effects of the PU-36's space modulation effects on human anatomy were still not fully understood. There were multiple tests on rabbits (well, one rabbit) but those had actually turned out to be inconclusive, ultimately. And now, here I am, feeling every atom in my body vibrating, ready to explode. Well, it all started here, in the anti-gravity research lab...

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