Hide's 100-word story for July 13, 2025

Hide wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 13, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Twenty-year-old Will Hunting of South Boston is a self taught math genius who was recently paroled after completing a prison term. He works as a janitor at MIT, and spends his free time drinking with his friends Chuckie, Billy and Morgan. When Professor Gerald Lambeau posts a difficult graph theory mathematics problem on a blackboard as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously, stunning both the students and Lambeau. As a challenge to the unknown genius, Lambeau posts an even more difficult problem. He later catches Will writing the solution on the blackboard late at night.

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