JKWriter's 100-word story for September 14, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on September 14, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

The morning was always the best time of day to walk through the woods alongside the railroad tracks. It was the same route every day...from the front porch down through the meadow and trees until he reached the single little store in their tiny town. It had been the only place that the boy had ever known, but it's peaceful existence was one that he would carry with him for the rest of his life. It's been almost 50 years later and his home had ago disappeared...but the memories of it healed his soul in this broken time.

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