joeislove's 100-word story for July 28, 2025

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

Some people hate it here. Not me. I love it. Everything I want day-to-day is either downstairs or within a short walk. The walls are even reasonably soundproof; I hardly ever hear my neighbors. Except the lady to my east; she can get a little noisy right before bedtime, but I'm usually watching television then anyway, so it doesn't really bother me.... much. Sometimes I sit on my little balcony and I can hear the couple downstairs talking, but I can just tune them out. It's not bad, really. I only think about jumping once a week or so now.

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