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

calwinters 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.

Packed like sardines not a moment of peace between interchangeable cartridges of compressed people the man on the top floor likes to piss off his balcony the people below grab their umbrellas when they head out there was a jumper once, but only people in his column knew their solace interrupted by one second of screams and a blur of movement outside their windows all else were oblivious to the flight one day the weight of all of it will cause the structure to collapse pancaking down leaving only one man with urine-stained shoes worried perhaps he went too far.

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