Gray's 100-word story for July 7, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 7, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

She stood there, wrapped in her towel, dripping on the floor, looking at her slice of the sky through the only window in the dark, rented attic apartment. She'd been awake for exactly one hour, and work was exactly one hour away. When she came home, it would be time to sleep again. Life was like this: Open sky, endless possibilities. Plans drawn up. Materials gathered and arranged. Foundations laid, and then the shape sketched out. The space defined. And defined. And defined. And all the definitions ate the space in the name of safety, stability. And from what? Living?

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