joeislove's 100-word story for August 6, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on August 6, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

You can see for miles up here. Literally miles. About 7 miles, in fact. That's how far the horizon is over the open water from this little widow's walk. I'm not a widow, they just call it that. I've never even been married. And if my wife had died, I think that's called a widower, not a widow, isn't it? I never heard of a widower's walk, have you? Anyway, it's not a bad job. I just sit up there most of the day and watch for the boats so I can call Jimmy down to the tug boat dispatch.

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