Gray's 100-word story for June 16, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 16, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Back in their neighday, 2Horse had been kind of a big deal. Thirty glorious days of touring Jackson after their fortieth TikTok finally went viral. Then Phillip had to go and ruin it by getting stoned and stumbling drunk at The Pig & Pint after their first big gig, and that went viral too: a one-man stampede through a crowd of bar patrons, ending with a shaky-cam shot of a man trying to vomit into a toilet through a latex horse mouth. Now here they were, back playing on the street corners for nickels and dimes. Mark changed their name -- Neighvermore.

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