Hide's 100-word story for April 26, 2025

Hide wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on April 26, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Out of all the curses in the curse bucket, it wasn’t the worst one. Doomed to sit on the pier all day. Just fishin’. I think I’ve actually helped him. I mean, it’s been a few decades. I can recall he was an unpleasant middle aged man. Something about buying my pier and turning it into a shipyard. He called me a witch when I refused. So we’ve spent the years together, his days slowly rolling backwards. He’s been much more pleasant as a little boy. And besides, it’s a better fate than the ones that got turned into fish.

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