Gray's 100-word story for July 4, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 4, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Of all the photos in his desk, even the ones of the two of them as kids, the yellow one, him on the mountain, pulled her in the longest. Not a Polaroid, like she'd first thought -- it wasn't a light leak near center, but a lake, delicate silver chains of deltas trailing from its upper right side. He was doing 'V for victory' with his arms at the tops of clouds, at the sun. He'd seen himself as conqueror, always, and what did she see? An ant. On a rock. Waving its thin little limbs in defiance of its insignificance.

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