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

Jackal 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.

Over the woods and through the bridge, I traveled to my family’s lake house. In the back of the house, next to the washer, lived a very little mouse. Whenever we went out, this mouse inside our house would eat through my mother’s blouse. We didn’t know it was the mouse eating the blouse because my father blamed the grouse. My mother wasn’t having his antics and yelled, “if the grouse got in the house, you will no longer be my spouse!!” Without a second thought, after their screaming about the grouse and mouse, I decided I’m moving to Laos.

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