calwinters's 100-word story for July 1, 2025

calwinters wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 1, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I live for the times when my soul leaves my body floats above the world seeing all the minute problems become smaller the big troubles shrink as well as I rise rise rise leaving my troubles behind laughing as I realize they are nothing but clutter filling the spaces in which I live bouncing off walls repeating repeating repeating until they are all that exists but from here far above they are nothing but echoes of sadness muffled by distance and indifference but then I plunge and the open their arms and welcome me in to seethe again in misery

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