calwinters's 100-word story for June 24, 2025

calwinters wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 24, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Travel is rewarding if you sprint forward in the race of humanity feeling the rush of air on your face like a fly in wind dodging the dash of a hand seeking to barrel you over and hasten your demise but it will jog your memory should they shoot you into space unprepared like a dart hurled willy-nilly or a bolt thrown in a door and now I abscond with reality just to hurry this along at a gallop toward the end not a cantor but a bustle to finally decamp from this poem and find the means to skedaddle

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