joeislove's 100-word story for June 28, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 28, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by welding the pieces together with gold, creating a dramatic piece that draws attention to the cracks instead of hiding them. But what if that plate or bowl is broken again? Repaired again? Then broken again? How long before the cracks become all you can see? What happens when you start to feel as though there was never anything perfect and pure at the center, and the gold runs out and the filling in the thousands of cracks is just mud and bad memories? At what point do you admit defeat?

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