JKWriter's 100-word story for September 18, 2025

JKWriter wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on September 18, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I used to walk through the gully next to the railroad tracks as a kid. It was the one place I could go and avoid the other kids. I have never been one of those social people and sometimes it just gets too noisy. Here, in this quiet place I could meander and daydream my way home after school. There was a point where the telephone lines intersected the gully and then ran parallel to the trains. I used to walk directly under them and count the shoes tied together hanging over them. I always wondered who they belonged to.

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