JKWriter's 100-word story for August 23, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on August 23, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Mark stood on the side of the road watching his little brother as he thought to himself, "Welp...there he goes again. That makes twelve laps around the block." It was true...twelve times Paul drove around the block and he had only one hundred more to go to break the record. The representative from Guinness had arrived just moments before he'd scheduled this momentous event. To some people riding a wheelie around the block might seem silly, but to him...it was the only thing he had going for him. Well...that and backgammon, but who would notice that?

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