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

thaopixelpoet 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.

The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, "Kintsugi", isn't meant for people like me because, for one, I'm not Japanese, and two, where do I even get the gold from when my face is not made from ceramic, but from dirt and mud? When I look into the mirror, all that emerges is crime and horror, slushed together to produce a putrid-scented bucket of goo, oozing out of my bloody cracking eyeballs, dripping down my high, hollowed cheek into a void of lifelong regrets and resentment. I try to hide them. God knows I tried. Time to work.

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