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

joeislove 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.

There's a urban myth about shoes on a power line being used to let people know where they can find a nearby trap house. Or sometimes, it's supposed to be a memorial to somebody got shot on that spot. If it was the latter, there should be a lot more shoes swinging in the breeze around here, I can tell you that. But that thing about them being a signpost pointing the way to the trap makes no sense. You ain't gotta advertise like that. We don't snitch on ourselves. That said...you need something, you know where I'm at.

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