Hide's 100-word story for June 22, 2025

Hide wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 22, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

This has been too in-tents for me. No, dumb. I just haven’t been a happy camper lately. Too cutesy. I need you to go pitch a tent? I forgot what that meant. How do you break up with someone you’ve been camping out with for the past three years? You know how he likes his beans, how many beans he usually wants, what each other’s bean gas smells like… Mostly bean-related things, now that I think about it. I just feel like there’s more to life than sitting in a field eating beans sometimes. Maybe we’re not tent to be.

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