magisternihil's 100-word story for May 3, 2025

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on May 3, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

Stupid kids. First, they're all like, "Oh, look, it's a baby bear! So cute! I want to pet it!" and then they come and play and it's fun but then Mom comes around and it's all running and screaming and crying. One of them climbed a tree and the other's told it it was stupid because bears can climb trees, which was news to me, and then it dropped down and ran and Mom was proper miffed. Then I thought, "If bears can climb trees why aren't I climbing more trees?" and... Anyway, now I'm stuck. Please don't tell Mom.

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