magisternihil's 100-word story for April 28, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on April 28, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Seven lemons in, Barry started to feel queasy. He could feel his teeth disintegrating. And the taste! He could never look at a lemonade stand the same again. As he chewed the sour pulp of the eleventh lemon he began to question his life choices. Maybe it was the shirt? Maybe women weren't as into silk as he had heard? He forced down the twenty-fifth and approached her again, sweaty but triumphant. "You said if I ate twenty-five lemons you would go out with me." Franny looked at him in horror as juice ran down his horrible shirt. "Wait, what?"

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