Gray's 100-word story for June 15, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 15, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

In the dream the walls of the dry pool are forty feet tall; there are mustard yellow doors in the sides, like the exterior of a big box store, connected by terra cotta stairs. She can see the tops of stairhead enclosures. She watches herself come out one door and into another, turns, and watches herself do it again on another wall. In and out -- all the while the pool is filling with black water. She can't swim. The alarm goes off. She sits up crying, and wipes moisture off her cheeks. Time to go back to work at Wal-Mart.

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