joeislove's 100-word story for September 6, 2025

joeislove wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on September 6, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The skies are blue here. That was a surprise to me. I had expected them to be green or red or something. Something alien, like everything else on Dx-psi-theta-473/4. The trees were red. Why shouldn’t the sky be crimson as well? Gloria had explained that the plants were red because of the high levels of iron found in them, as well as some other details I did not understand and do not recall. And in an atmosphere so similar to Earth’s, the diffusion of the light from the yellow sun would make a blue sky. It would have to.

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