Gray's 100-word story for June 30, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 30, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Little boxes, little boxes, and they're all made out of ticky-tacky . . . The song looped in Liberto's head as Iggy's Lexus slid along Runway Boulevard through long, lavender shadows of Craftsman houses. Last time he was here, these were painted like Easter eggs. Now they're maroon, white, denim blue, capitalism following individuality around with the usual can of white-wash. His mother used to hum that song, cheerfully, in the same way she thought Jerry Samuels' 1966 hit was funny, and even at seven years old, it gave him a sense of unreality, like propaganda from the PA in a concentration camp.

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