calwinters's 100-word story for August 12, 2025

calwinters wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on August 12, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

If you inhale a cloud you take within you the particles of everything all of the tears and spit and piss evaporated from every person you suck their essence into your lungs and connect with them all of them before you exhale and share them with others adding to the mix your own offering your own angst and fear and love a symbiotic relationship accidental in the making but nonetheless more thorough than conversation or performance they not only have you they have every bit of you you don't want to share but don't fret you have your collection too

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