joeislove's 100-word story for June 19, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 19, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Keep walking. Don't look at it. Don't look past it. Ignore that child's voice. Do not follow that child's voice into the woods. Just stay on the trail. Keep looking for the next trail blaze. That picture frame has nothing to do with us, it's not on the trail, and dusk is falling. And stop that whistling. Nothing draws them closer faster than the smell of that fear hidden by your false veneer of nonchalance. You may as well be ringing the dinner bell. Just look for the next trail marker and think about that. We are gonna make it.

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