thaopixelpoet's 100-word story for July 18, 2025

thaopixelpoet wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 18, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I heard myself in screams, in disbelief, in silence. The version of me today is broken and some parts of myself were never retrieved again. Maybe it's because of the softness I was convinced to be weak. Maybe it's the people-pleasing tendencies because of arguing parents. Maybe it's my sensitive heart that cannot take all the evil going on in this messy world. These are the parts that I want to shatter. Now I have reached the bottom, there is no way out, after all. This isn't my ending. Instead, I learned my broken glass should be met with light.

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