joeislove's 100-word story for April 30, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on April 30, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The Bean Snuffler insectoids of Architrex-6 have always struggled to make people understand olfactory politeness. "After all," they'll sniff, "those nose aren't just for show. I can smell a rat fart at one thousand meters and tell you what it had for breakfast last week." As you can imagine, when the poop wars ripped one, farting out of the galactic core, and wafted their way to the shores of Architrex, the devastation was absolute. There are only a few thousand Bean Snuffler survivors in the galaxy now, and they would thank you very kindly to please just have a mint!

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