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

Hide 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.

“Let’s go man! Graffiti day!” I slammed the alarm and groaned. Graffiti day. Josh’s favorite day of the week. My brother bounded around the room, picking out different colored spray paint. “Dude, can I sleep in just this once? I’ll catch up later.” “No way! If I’m not there with my favorite lil bro, people will think there’s something wrong!” “I’m your only ‘lil bro.’ And I’m not good at painting. Unlike literally everyone else in this city.” “Maybe you just haven’t found your style yet.” That’s the story of how I found out I can only paint creepy eyeballs.

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