joeislove's 100-word story for July 19, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 19, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

One hundred. I’ve been out here for one hundred days. Grinding out one hundred words every day. Ten thousand words. And for what? Am I any closer to my destination than when I started this journey? Or am I just spinning my wheels? I’m keeping my streak alive, but some days it feels as if I understand less with each passing day. I want to unlock the secret memories that my psyche has hidden from me, but my past is still a confused jumble of dissociated fragments of memory. Just leaves swirling in the breeze. But I continue. I must.

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