Gray's 100-word story for June 29, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 29, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Liberto stopped eating meat when he learned about bolt guns. It wasn't enough. He'd go out with the guys, watch them drink and throw back burgers and steaks, think about cowering animals with cold steel pressed to their skulls. His head would pound like the gun was pressing into his temple. He found Elk Ravine Farm on the Internet and started going there once a month. The highland cows were curly-haired, foul-smelling monsters and he loved them. Two hundred and fifty a month was nothing to remind himself that not everyone did everything for the sake of destruction and greed.

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