Hide's 100-word story for May 1, 2025

Hide wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 1, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I perched on her lap, verbally. This old C-word (there’s so many of them, but let’s go with Crone) had kept me overdue for two weeks. Her house is dusty too, and I have loose-leaf (the book equivalent to asthma.) I hope she remembers to return me. I miss my family. Oh yeah, lots of siblings. I’m the third in a multi-part series. I’ll make sure to warn my younger brother about this piece of S-word (Slow reader). As I pondered literarily, she traced my spine to find her bookmark with a proverb on it. She opens me up. {Redacted}

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