joeislove's 100-word story for August 16, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on August 16, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

That night we all went skinny dipping in the irrigation canal is a memory I will treasure until my final breath. At a punk show at the greenhouse, when the last band finished, the bass player grabbed the microphone and yelled, "Who wants to go swimming?" Fifteen minutes later there were about two hundred sweaty, grimy punks stripping down and piling into the canal in a carnival of pure chaos. And Anna was there. It was the first night I saw her boobs. Then the cops showed up. I never even went back for my pants. Still there, I guess.

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