Hide's 100-word story for July 20, 2025

Hide wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 20, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

They say it took two years and two dozen master glass blowers to create the Glas Haus. The blue was created with ground lapis lazuli, mined from the Indus Valley. The red came from pure gold chloride, which was the only way to turn glass that shade of red. It was vegan, fair trade, and incredibly pretentious. Was it worth it? Sarah McKinny, glass collector, certainly thought so. The world’s most glass-obsessed nepo baby demanded her 18th birthday party to be thrown it the Glas Haus. Was it expensive? Not really. It only cost her an arm and a leg.

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