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

joeislove 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.

Moo-tionless in White was playing tonight, and Angus couldn’t miss it. He shook his shaggy bangs over one eye, nostrils flaring with angst. Rain fell like tears on fur as he trudged through muddy fields, horns glinting under stormy skies. At the fence, he bellowed his heartbreak anthem: “Moo-ore Than You’ll Ever Know.” Other cows stared, chewing grass, unimpressed by his eyeliner streaks of mud. But Angus felt alive, aching, beautifully misunderstood. Under the weight of his heavy fringe, heavy horns, and heavier feelings, he knew one truth: in a world of plain herds, he was born to be emoo.

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