Gray's 100-word story for July 10, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 10, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Kaylee looks out the window. The pain is a high C note. Livid cracks shoot through her. By the time she's down the fire escape and in the alley, the last pieces swing in the frame, jagged, lying in wait for arteries. Her monochrome tribute to Lovecraft had taken ten hours of her life. In the three she'd slept, someone had destroyed it. Sloppy, clashing, disjointed Nickelodeon monsters everywhere, leaving only one horror-wide eye. She had said 'have the courage to stare the horrors in the face.' They had said what they always said. 'Go away. You make us uncomfortable.'

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