calwinters's 100-word story for July 3, 2025

calwinters wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 3, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Stranded run aground the wind can't save me now nothing is as it should be the depths have abandoned me my sails are shredded pulled apart and robbed from me the vessel in which I travel now has no purpose it's beauty and subtle genius dashed against the rocks and rendered pointless should I drop redundant anchor abandon ship trust that the submarine threat is less than the angry glare of the sun? No I will take flight instead abandon the way things 'should be' and find a new way to travel that doesn't rely on machines that don't work

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