joeislove's 100-word story for July 12, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 12, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Are they all called pegasuses? Pegasi? Pegasodes? Or was there just one Pegasus ever? The one that Bellerophon was friends with? Is Pegasus actually just his name and maybe he was just a "horse, but with wings"? Greek mythology is confusing as hell for this and various other reasons. For instance, his dad was Poseidon except he was pretending to be a horse, but Medusa gave birth to him? Okay, but why didn't he have snakes for hair? Do Gorgons just have really weak genes or... Hey, these aren't silly questions at all. Stop walking away, you guys! Wait up!

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