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

Hide 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.

Laura sat in figure class, staring at the wooden dummy. Her expensive graphite pencil hovered over the blank paper as sweat trickled down her forehead. What was it like to be frozen, running in place? To pretend to be moving, with no one believing you were going anywhere? Was it like being engaged to your high school sweetheart who you didn’t actually like very much? The one who just pretends they support you being in the community college arts program in the tiny midwestern town you both grew up in? She wrote “existential crisis” on the page, stood, and left.

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