Gray's 100-word story for July 5, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 5, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Lilah dreamt of leaving every night until all the dreams fused, fueled by the anxious, desperate churn of her daily thoughts. She was a robot at Starbucks, pushing the burnt-espresso drug to burnt-out drones whose slavery was fueled by her own. Paul didn't -- or didn't want to -- understand that it was already bad enough in America and was absolutely going to get worse, people had already been 'disappeared,' murdered, imprisoned. Registries invented to warn disabled people to shut up about resources they'd never had and would now never receive. But Paul wasn't autistic, Black or brown, and he wasn't trans.

Want to write flash fiction like this? Join the daily challenge at Hectalex.com and discover how powerful 100 words can be.