joeislove's 100-word story for July 24, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on July 24, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I gotta learn to stop breaking so hard. I mean, you want a good scattering on the initial break, but I have a tendency to crack the balls so hard that a couple of them go flying. Serious foul, and everyone in the bar always gets pissed off at me. This time it was the three ball. Took a lucky bounce right out the open transom. So I had to trudge my fat ass up out of the basement bar to find it in the alley. I should have thought about my love for billiards when I wished for super-strength.

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