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

calwinters 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.

Room with a view like a hole in my head peering out how far away things seem when you step back into yourself and squint your eyes how bright and sunny it is out there not cozy and comfortable like here in the darkness kept company by errant thoughts catchy tunes regrets grown mammoth useless facts useful truths the sum total of that dialogue from Spanish class that still hasn't come up in life but these things are known to me familiar and all of that out there is foreign terrifying intrusive and loud no, I'll stay here and read

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